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Nigeria MTN the most profiting subsidiary company within MTN Group  (PDF - 422K)

MTN is one of the largest transnational mobile operators in Africa and MTN Nigeria is the largest mobile operator in Nigeria, with a market share of 50% in GSM. In recent years, the Nigeria mobile communication market has been growing rapidly, with mobile phone users growing by 100% annually. MTN Nigeria serves a large number of high-end users in such densely populated urban areas as Abuja, Kano, Ibadan, and Kaduna. It is crucial to guarantee the service quality to these users. Meanwhile, MTN Nigeria has to expand its market share in order to overcome the problem of declining ARPU.

Huawei's enhanced coverage solution improves network performance

Aiming at the intense traffic in the capital Abuja and other densely populated cities, Huawei's EnerG GSM solution enhances the network coverage, supports the dual-band BTS of 900 / 1800 MHz co-site deployment and half rate technologies to increase system capacity.

Huawei's superior coverage enhancement solution increases the radius of coverage by 20% per 3dB gain on uplink and downlink, reduces the number of sites by approximately 30%, which helps MTN save 30% investment regarding station sites and network operation and maintenance.

Huawei's EnerG GSM solution adopts various enhanced voice algorithm and background noise restrain technologies, which can promote customer's experience and improve the utilization ratio of radio frequency spectrum resources.

Huawei's layered service allocation mechanism ensures channel assignment based on predefined priority. According to that, the network capacity can be increased by more than 80%, effectively guaranteeing end-users' satisfaction.

Better network performance to keep the leading position

Huawei's EnerG GSM solution solved crucial problems which troubled MTN for a long time, and network performance, such as voice quality, the access rate of users, and network traffic were improved. The improvement in the entire network performance realized excellent coverage in high-density urban areas, and will help operators to meet more challenges in future.

In Abuja, the network performance ranked first for over 30 consecutive weeks after the introduction of Huawei's EnerG GSM solution. Both subscribers and network traffic increased quickly. Meanwhile, it pushed MTN Nigeria to an outstanding stage. The ranking of MTN Nigeria's profit margin increased from No. 5 to No.1 in MTN Group. MTN Nigeria became the most profitable in the whole group.

Milestones

• As of December 2006, the commercial network of MTN had applied more than 12,000 TRXs of Huawei GSM products.

• In April 2005, MTN Group awarded Huawei the framework contract of GSM network equipment procurement and technical service.

• In December 2004, MTN selected Huawei to undertake its nationwide optical fiber backbone network.

• In April 2004, MTN Group and Huawei signed a framework agreement for strategic cooperation.

• In March 2003, MTN awarded Huawei a GSM contract.