MTN to boost ICT industry Sudan…..


Khartoum - MTN one of the biggest telecommunication corporations in Africa and the Middle East will invest in modern infrastructure to meet the challenges of ICT (Information Communication Technology), especially the increasing demand from the social media, a press conference was informed yesterday by MTN International Group Deputy President and Head of the Group Operations, Ahmed Faroug. The press conference came at the end of his visit to Sudan to discuss the MTN Sudan administration the strategies and plans of the company during the coming period until the end of 2015.
Faroug stressed on that the Company will invest in the communication infrastructure that will enable it to provide the best services to its customers taking into serious consideration the increasing demand of the social media and that the Mobile service at present is not only a call or an SMS message.
In this upgrading and promotion, the Company will depend basically on its Sudanese   workforce, both males and females with their excellent expertise and whose capacity will be further increased by more training.  He pointed out that MTN has its own Training Academy and that Sudan is a very competitive market and this means to exert every possible effort to provide the best possible services.
The MTN official in answer to a question about if the present economic situation in Sudan represents a problem for the company operation, he answered  by saying that yes, there are problems and challenges but this is not only in Sudan but everywhere you face challenges and we do our best to overcome them.
Corporate social responsibility was not absent from the discussion and in which MTN affirmed that it is strongly committed to its obligations in this arena and is doing its best to have an impact on the society.

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