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Tamale, Ghana – The Chief Sales and Distribution Officer for MTN Ghana, Shaibu Haruna, has announced that the telecom company was going through a strategic shift in business focus in line with a new vision.
According to him, the company had been known over the years as a telecommunication company but it was now shifting its focus from a telecommunication company to a technological company by 2025.
Speaking to senior journalists and editors at the 2022 MTN Editors Forum at Tamale on Monday, Mr. Haruna mentioned that the company was now focusing on voice, data, fintec, digital, enterprise, wholesale and API services as part of its vision 2025.
“To enable us achieve all these and more in Ghana, were investing 1 billion dollars to maintain network leadership by 2025. 260 districts in the country have been covered by 4G network. We have rolled out 400 new sites comprising 2G network, 3G network and 4G network in the Northern Region alone. Were making 220 million cedis in capital expenditure in 2022”, he stated.
Mr. Haruna also mentioned that numerous opportunities including job creation, scholarships, provision of learning and teaching materials among others had been made by MTN Ghana for the benefit of Ghanaians in the last 25 years.
“We have invested Gh¢64 million cedis in sustainable community projects including 87 education projects in the areas of ICT centres and libraries, classrooms and dormitories and award of scholarships. We have done 53 healthcare projects including building hospitals and health centres, blood bank construction, wards and maternity blocks and hole in heart surgeries.
The company has also carried out 13 economic empowerment projects in the areas of micro enterprises, youth development, women empowerment in shea butter and oil palm, innovations fund at KNUST, and ICT incubation at Ghana Multimedia Incubation Centre. We also have done community support initiatives through the provision of vocational skills training for “trokosi” girls and Covid-19 support for selected senior high schools in the country. About 4.5 million Ghanaians have been directly and indirectly impacted through these interventions by MTN Ghana and its Foundation”, he indicated.
The Chief Sales and Distribution Officer encouraged journalists to continue to partner with MTN Ghana to tell the company’s success stories in all areas of investments while identify emerging challenges and drawing MTN management to such for solutions.
The MTN Editors Forum is an annual interface meeting between staff and management of MTN Ghana on one hand and senior journalists and editors of local media houses in the Northern and Savannah Regions on the other hand. The Forum creates opportunity for MTN leadership to brief the media about the company’s operational challenges and achievements within the course of the year.
Management of MTN Ghana also use the Forum to elicit support from the media by way of receiving feedback from the public through them and give an indication as to how they are addressing certain challenges customers are experiencing. They partner with the media to create awareness about their operations to enable the public appreciate what they are doing to make things better as service providers.
This years Forum was a bit modified as journalists were given the opportunity to make presentations on different topics while making recommendations to MTN Ghanas leadership. The three groups of journalists; Radio, Television and Online/Newspaper were all rewarded with hundreds of Ghana cedis worth of airtime for their splendid presentations.
There was also a question and answer session during the forum where journalists who were able to answer questions based on presentations by the MTN team were rewarded with purse, power banks and bags among others.
By SavannahNewsOnline.Com/Joseph Ziem
