{"id":998634,"date":"2026-03-17T08:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998634"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:46:59","slug":"south-african-telecoms-group-mtn-swings-to-annual-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/17\/south-african-telecoms-group-mtn-swings-to-annual-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"South African telecoms group MTN swings to annual profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: Africa&#8217;s biggest telecoms operator MTN Group said on Monday it \u200cswung \u2060to an annual \u2060profit before tax of 47.4 billion rand ($2.81 billion), driven by strong performances in MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa-headquartered MTN had reported a restated \u2060loss before tax \u200cof 4.1 billion rand in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s \u2060service revenue rose 22.7% to 218.5 billion rand in the year ended December 31, led by strong growth of 54.9% and 35.9% in Nigeria and Ghana, respectively, the \u200cmobile operator said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: Africa&#8217;s biggest telecoms operator MTN Group said on Monday it \u200cswung \u2060to an annual \u2060profit before tax of 47.4 billion rand ($2.81 billion), driven by strong performances in MTN Nigeria and MTN Ghana. South Africa-headquartered MTN had reported a restated \u2060loss before tax \u200cof 4.1 billion rand in 2024. The group&#8217;s \u2060service revenue rose 22.7% to 218.5 billion rand in the year ended December 31, led by strong growth of 54.9% and 35.9% in Nigeria and Ghana, respectively, the \u200cmobile operator said in a statement.<\/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-998634","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\/998634","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=998634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}