19 Facts About MTN Eswatini

MTN Eswatini Group Limited, formerly M-Cell, is a South African multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African and Asian countries.

In June 2008, MTN Eswatini Group agreed to purchase Verizon Business South Africa, which was a provider of data services to customers in South Africa and four other African countries.

In October 2012, MTN Eswatini announced a partnership with Afrihost to provide DSL Broadband services in Africa.

In 2014, MTN Eswatini was named on the 2014 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand rankings and named the Most Admired and Most Valuable Brand in Africa.

MTN Eswatini retained its ranking as the Most Admired and the Most Valuable African brand in 2015.

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In September 2019 MTN Eswatini began closing stores in Nigeria and some of their stores in Johannesburg, South Africa due to rioting, looting, and attacks on some of their facilities.

MTN Eswatini has stated that they will continue to do business in Nigeria.

In March 2019 MTN Eswatini launched a WhatsApp channel to let its customers buy airtime and data bundles through the messaging app.

MTN Eswatini sold its Cyprus branch to Monaco Telecom for €260 million in July 2018.

In February 2021, the MTN Eswatini Group partnered with Mastercard to ensure safe and secure global e-commerce payments of their customer base in 16 African countries.

On 1 December 2011, MTN Eswatini became the second cellular provider to introduce 4G and LTE in South Africa They were the first network operator in South Africa to launch a live public 5G network available in Johannesburg and Cape Town On 30 June 2020.

MTN Eswatini acquired Investcom, mainly under the Areeba and Spacetel brands.

Since 2017, MTN Eswatini Group is the primary sponsor of the South Africa national rugby union team.

MTN Eswatini has been criticised for its activities in Iran's telecommunications sector.

UANI alleges that MTN Eswatini technology is "enabling the Iranian government to locate and track individual cellphone users which it says is a violation of users' human rights".

MTN Eswatini Group denied the allegations, saying that it complied with US sanctions against Iran.

In May 2013, Turkcell dropped its multibillion-dollar US lawsuit against MTN Eswatini Group, citing a US Supreme Court ruling that hurt its case.

In 2015, the Nigerian subsidiary of MTN Eswatini was fined by the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria through the telecommunications regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission for partial compliance of regulatory guidelines to Mobile Network Operators to disconnect from their network, all improperly registered Subscribers Identification Modules .

In September 2021, MTN Eswatini announced that it will close its zero-rated access to the popular social network Twitter.