{"id":974536,"date":"2025-11-18T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974536"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:25:08","slug":"south-africa-telco-mtns-service-revenue-rises-26-on-nigeria-ghana-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/south-africa-telco-mtns-service-revenue-rises-26-on-nigeria-ghana-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa telco MTN&#8217;s service revenue rises 26% on Nigeria, Ghana growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s MTN said on Monday its service revenue for the nine months to September rose by 25.9%, driven by strong performances in Nigeria and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s biggest telecom operator, which has more than 300 million customers in 16 markets across the continent, said that excluding the effect of currency fluctuations, group service revenue increased by 22.6%.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Nigeria led growth with a 57.1% rise in service revenue while MTN Ghana rose 35.9%, supported by lower inflation and more stable exchange rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s MTN said on Monday its service revenue for the nine months to September rose by 25.9%, driven by strong performances in Nigeria and Ghana. Africa&#8217;s biggest telecom operator, which has more than 300 million customers in 16 markets across the continent, said that excluding the effect of currency fluctuations, group service revenue increased by 22.6%. MTN Nigeria led growth with a 57.1% rise in service revenue while MTN Ghana rose 35.9%, supported by lower inflation and more stable exchange rates.<\/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-974536","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\/974536","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=974536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}