{"id":1030912,"date":"2026-08-25T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030912"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:27:21","slug":"south-africa-telco-mtns-half-year-adjusted-profit-rises-more-than-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/south-africa-telco-mtns-half-year-adjusted-profit-rises-more-than-21\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa telco MTN&#8217;s half-year adjusted profit rises more than 21%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile operator MTN Group reported on Monday a 21.3% increase in half-year adjusted profit, largely driven by subscriber growth that accelerated in \u200cthe second \u2060quarter, \u2060and double-digit growth in service revenue. <\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s biggest telecom operator, \u200bwhich has more than 317 million customers in 19 markets, \u200bsaid its adjusted headline earnings per share (HEPS) rose to 793 cents in the six \u200bmonths ended June 30, up from \u2060654 cents \u200ca year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile operator MTN Group reported on Monday a 21.3% increase in half-year adjusted profit, largely driven by subscriber growth that accelerated in \u200cthe second \u2060quarter, \u2060and double-digit growth in service revenue. Africa&#8217;s biggest telecom operator, \u200bwhich has more than 317 million customers in 19 markets, \u200bsaid its adjusted headline earnings per share (HEPS) rose to 793 cents in the six \u200bmonths ended June 30, up from \u2060654 cents \u200ca year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030925,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030912\/revisions\/1030925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}