MTN, ‘everywhere you go’ is now MTN, ‘everywhere it goes, it offends’
2 min readMTN Malpractices come to Light across the Africa Continent
By Malith Alier, Juba, South Sudan
November 4, 2015 (SSB) — MTN, ‘everywhere you go’ is now MTN, ‘everywhere it goes, it offends.’
Have you noticed that MTN South Sudan is now the most expensive network in the country? It’s billing is the highest in the country. A day ago or two ago, friend asked me why I keep MTN simcard and not the others. He asserted that MTN “eats Money Like locust.”
The knowledge we have is that MTN is a South African telecommunication company founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Johannesburg. It operates in 20 other African countries including Nigeria.
Last month MTN slapped with a record fine of $5.20 billion by Nigerian government. The reason was that MTN Nigeria failed to deactivate unregistered numbers as directed by the government.
Likewise MTN South Sudan is doing host other bad things in this country – things I think are far worse than the ones in the West African country.
MTN takes advantage here because the country regulatory environment is nonexistent or weak. Apart from charging higher fees, MTN continues to send unsolicited messages known as junk mail to customers for no good reason.
What is the meaning of such messages like?
INTER CALL
MAXI BONUS
XTRA TIME
YELLOSUNDAY
WORLD CALL
MTN PLAY
MTN TUNEZ
MTN has even invented fake calls using strange numbers like 803, 94444444444 OR 303.
MTN is expensive, junk and a nuisance. It should be ready to face a group action in future for jamming our memory cards with unwanted messages.
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South Sudan Good Telecommunications:
1. Vivacell for call.
2. Zain for internet.
3. MTN for both call and Internet and take airtimes without informing a person.
4. I don’t have Gemtel simcard and I don’t its goods.
I’ve Question to asked and tried to answer it.–
QN. Why are only four networks in South Sudan?