MTN Zambia gaat $ 25 mln investeren in het verbeteren van het netwerk. "Hierdoor denken we in 2010 tussen de 500.000 en 1 mln extra klanten te kunnen bedienen", aldus CEO Farhad Khan. MTN heeft wereldwijd 108 mln klanten. Nu is MTN de tweede aanbieder na ZAIN, met 1 mln klanten en ongeveer 15% marktaandeel.
MTN Zambia to spend $25 mln on upgrades
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Mobile phone operator MTN Zambia plans to invest $25 million in network upgrades to capture between 500,000 and one million more subscribers in 2010, Chief Executive Officer Farhad Khan said on Wednesday.
MTN Zambia is a unit of South Africa's MTN, Africa's largest wireless phone operator, which has more than 108 million subscribers in Africa and the Middle East.
MTN is Zambia's second largest mobile phone operator with a subscriber base of slightly over one million and 15 percent of the market share after Zain Zambia, a unit of Kuwait mobile firm Zain with 78 percent of the market share.
The government-owned Cell Z, a part of Zambia's only fixed line telephone operator Zamtel which is in a process of being privatised, has seven percent of the market.
Khan told Reuters in an interview MTN, which had 700,000 subscribers in April last year, increased the number to more than one million around October.
"In 2010 we would like to go closer to the 1.5 million to two million subscriber mark and we think that is very achievable," Khan said.
