As part of its commitment to ICT development in Ethiopia and Africa, MTN is sponsoring the Best ICT Innovation Award during the 5th ICT Exhibition, Bazaar and Conference organized by Ethiopia’s in Addis Ababa this week.

One of the key goals of the exhibition is to bring multiple stakeholders together to share knowledge and experience, as well as foster partnerships through discussing various topics related to the ICT sector.  It will further serve to promote the importance of the sector amongst major policy makers, international bodies and relevant governmental and non-governmental organizations.

“We are excited and honored to be supporting and be part of ICT innovation in Ethiopia. Although we are first-time sponsors of this programme, we are looking forward to a much more engaging partnership with ICT stakeholders in Ethiopia,” says Happy-Girl Buthelezi, MTN Country Manager for Ethiopia.

MTN is a multi-national telecommunications group founded in 1994, and offers a wide range of mobile voice and data communications products and services to individuals, corporates, small-to-medium size enterprises and cooperatives.

MTN operates mobile networks in 21 markets in Africa and the Middle East, with 173 million subscribers as at April 2012. In December 2011, MTN Group revenues reached US$17 billion and invested US$2.4 billion in network infrastructure. MTN also made investments in optic fibre cable networks as well as growing its access to broadband capacity on undersea cables.

MTN has 24 252 employees representing 55 nationalities and in 2011, MTN invested $37 million on employee development.

MTN’s vision is to be the leading ICT services provider in emerging markets.

Source:  Press Release sent to 2merkato.com by Saba Ermyas (PR/Media Coordinator) of 251 Communications, Mobile: +251913611096