{"id":184493,"date":"2017-07-10T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T12:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=184493"},"modified":"2017-07-10T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T12:09:44","slug":"mtn-reported-to-agree-rwanda-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/184493\/mtn-reported-to-agree-rwanda-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN reported to agree Rwanda fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Rwanda will pay the FRw\u00a07.03 billion (R111 million)\u00a0fine handed to it by the\u00a0Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rwandaeye.com\/mtn-rwanda-agrees-to-pay-us-8-5-million-administrative-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rwanda Eye reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It agreed to pay the fine after months of negotiations failed and will pay the full amount this month, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The company previously said the fine relates to <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/211128-mtn-fined-in-rwanda.html\"><strong>non-compliance with the directives issued by the regulator<\/strong><\/a> prohibiting the inclusion of MTN Rwanda in the MTN South and East Africa IT hub based in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Rwanda CEO Bart Hofker said the fine would not affect customers and would not be paid by MTN Group, but by MTN Rwanda, stated the report.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/179095\/moodys-issues-further-downgrades-for-mtn-eskom-sasol-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moody\u2019s issues further downgrades for MTN, Eskom, Sasol and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Rwanda will pay the FRw 7.03 billion (R111 million) fine handed to it by the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority, Rwanda Eye reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":46956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,28],"class_list":["post-184493","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\/184493","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184497,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184493\/revisions\/184497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}