{"id":7391,"date":"2012-03-07T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2012-03-07T07:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T07:06:49","slug":"mtn-grows-earnings-and-subscriber-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/7391\/mtn-grows-earnings-and-subscriber-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN grows earnings and subscriber numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite increasing competition and a slower economic backdrop, mobile services giant MTN Group (MTN) reported a 43.2% increase in adjusted headline earnings per share to 1,070 cents for the year ended December 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The group grew its subscriber base by 16.2% to 164.5 million and continued to hold a strong market position.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue was 9.7% higher on a constant currency basis while earnings before tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margin expanded 3.4 percentage points to 44.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The group EBITDA margin includes the profit from the sale of the Ghana passive infrastructure, which if excluded, reduces the group EBITDA margin to 43.9%.<\/p>\n<p>This is approximately the same level achieved in the prior year excluding the one time Zakhele charge of R2.973 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The group declared a final dividend of 476cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite increasing competition and a slower economic backdrop, mobile services giant MTN Group (MTN) reported a 43.2% increase in adjusted headline earnings per share to 1,070 cents for the year ended December 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}