Since October 2015, MTN has lost 18 Million subscribers across its 22 operations due to subscriber registration processes.

However, the South Africa-based multinational telecommunications company plans to add eight million new subscribers by the end of its financial year, with 1.8 million of those coming from Ghana, one of its biggest customer base in Africa.

The group was forced to disconnect 6.6 million subscribers over the six-month period in Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon. Since October 2015, approximately 18 million subscribers across the group's 22 operations were disconnected to ensure compliance with various subscribers registration processes.

The Executive Chairman of the MTN group, Phuthuma Nhleko, says that as far as customer disconnections are concerned, he believes the group "broke the back of this last year" to become as complaint as possible.

" In the past years, we have had to start from a low base and reconnect those subscribers, so we vare hoping to add eight million subscribers by the end of the year,". he said at the group's interim results presentation on Friday.

By: Farida Mohammed/ghanaguardian.com