MTN speakers partake in AfricaCom 2010
A number of MTN executives will form part of the lineup of speakers at AfricaCom 2010, hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from 10-11 November 2010. This is the third year that MTN has sponsored the annual telecoms conference.
- Karel Pienaar, MD of MTN South Africa, will give an interview on 'Regional strategies for the next stage of growth in Africa'.
- Themba Khumalo, MTN Uganda CEO, will give a presentation in the Mobile Money session, with particular emphasis on the mobile money ecosystem in Africa.
- Angela Gahagan, MTN Business managing executive, will be part of a Broadband Data Panel that will discuss: Generating revenues from broadband services.
- MTN Group 2010 FIFA World Cup general manager, Cambridge Mokanyane will give a presentation on 'The impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on mobile services
- Peter Malebye, MTN South Africa GM for innovation and operations will talk about 'Examining the growing mobile content ecosystem in Africa'.
- Megan Arthur, MTN GM: customer development and retention, will deliver a presentation entitled 'Innovative loyalty strategies to reduce churn'.
Says Nozipho January-Bardill, MTN group executive: corporate affairs: "As competition intensifies in the mobile telecoms space and consolidation becomes a reality, industry events like AfricaCom presents telecoms companies such as MTN the rare opportunity to draw learnings from its peers and share insights from industry players who are facing similar challenges and presented with the same opportunities.
"We hope that our continued sponsorship of AfricaCom will reap immense benefits not only for MTN, but for other role players and stakeholders in emerging markets," said January-Bardill.
