{"id":116764,"date":"2016-03-15T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T08:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=116764"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T08:04:39","slug":"mtn-aims-to-improve-service-quality-with-new-consumer-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/116764\/mtn-aims-to-improve-service-quality-with-new-consumer-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN aims to improve service quality with new consumer chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN says it has appointed Larry Annetts to the position of chief consumer officer as part of an ongoing quest to improve service quality.<\/p>\n<p>Annetts\u2019 role will include consumer marketing, he will also be responsible for overseeing all activities related to the sales and marketing division, the mobile operator said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will also be expected to maintain a focus on innovation and efficiency and drive a holistic approach to deliver segmented propositions to the consumer whilst supporting other revenue streams within MTN SA,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Annetts has been at MTN Group since 1995. He served in a number of roles including serving as chief marketing officer of MTN Nigeria and chief marketing and strategy officer at MTN Irancell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his previous role in South Africa, he introduced a range of exciting first to market voice and data propositions including the popular MTN WOW,&#8221; MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>In the financial year ended 31 December 2015, MTN SA grew data revenue by 37.2%, and the prepaid segment increased by 12.3% to 25.3 million on the back of attractive voice and data offerings.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/115288\/mtn-hunting-for-new-ceo\/\">MTN hunting for new CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/114080\/mtn-pays-r3-8-billion-to-soften-up-nigerian-authorities\/\">MTN pays R3.8 billion to soften up Nigerian authorities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/113590\/mtn-shares-drop-18-amid-nigeria-nightmare\/\">MTN shares drop 18% amid Nigeria nightmare<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/113364\/mtn-shares-slump-on-earnings-warning\/\">MTN shares slump on earnings warning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN says it has appointed Larry Annetts to the position of chief consumer officer as part of an ongoing quest to improve service quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,28],"class_list":["post-116764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116768,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116764\/revisions\/116768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}