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MTN

MTN

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A large mobile phone company that started in South Africa
  • proper noun
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  • The annual report from MTN highlighted significant growth in subscriber numbers.
  • company called MTN

Examples

  • With Nigeria's carriers, such as Airtel and MTN, RIM has negotiated low-cost monthly data plans like the 30-day BlackBerry Complete plan that costs only 1,400 Naira.

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  • Sponsors included Seaman's Schnapps, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), African Independent Television (AIT), and the main sponsor: MTN, Nigeria's leading telecommunication company.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Some very comprehensive catalogues of their collections have recently been produced by companies such as MTN.

    Academic text (2007)

  • In addition to its air quality solution, MTN Business says it is making progress in the development of an application that will allow mining companies to conduct prospecting and geological assessments.

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  • Ifem here in Nigeria, so at least she can be rest assured that there are scammers everywhere and not only in Nigeria. Using my experience as an example, she can also know that there are investors in Nigeria that made history in their ROI simply because they invested in Nigeria. A very obvious example is MTN Communication Limited, a South African firm that presently has the highest subscriber base in Africa. Please ask Google about them.

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  • MTN is known as a leading telecommunications provider in Africa.

  • In Nigeria, MTN has become synonymous with mobile communication services.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

MTN started as an abbreviation for words about mobile phone service, like M 'mobile', T 'telephone' and N 'network'. So MTN as a company name tells you it runs a phone 'network' for mobile users.