Data Offerings: Subscribers and Gb Promotion

data offerings: It has 1.1 million fewer active data subscribers, although postpaid customers increased marginally by 0.1 percent to 5.6 million, according to The Independent. MTN chief executive Rob Shuter said that the 1GB promotion had contributed to the decline. Photo Simphiwe JOHANNESBURG MTN lost almost 2 million subscribers in South Africa in the six months to June and service revenue growth slowed by 3.3 percent in a stubbornly weak economy.MTN, Africa's telecoms giant, said it had 1.9 million less local subscribers compared to December, bringing the total subscribers to 29.2 million in the period under review, as price sensitive consumers opted for cheaper data offerings. We had our famous 1GB promotion, which we decided was not generating value and we pulled it out of the market.A lot of those SIMs have since become dormant and contributed to the drop in prepaid users, he said. We are evaluating a sustainable solution to the agreement with Cell C, Shuter said. Shuter said delayed payments under the network roaming agreement with Cell C resulted in a R393 million impairment. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.