MTN Group, a leading emerging market operator with operations in 22 countries in Africa and the Middle East has partnered with Liquid Telecom to enable its customers to benefit from a larger connectivity footprint across Africa. The partnership, which covers wholesale, carrier-to-carrier, high speed broadband, enterprise and fixed data services, enables MTN and Liquid Telecom to access each other’s fixed and wireless networks in countries on the African continent.
According to Liquid Telecom, the partnership enables the company to offer gigabit-speed services to enterprises across Benin, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan and Swaziland. Meanwhile for MTN, the agreement will see the company extending its services to its multinational enterprise customers in Burundi, DRC, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Nic Rudnick, CEO of The Liquid Telecom Group
We have a well-deserved reputation in East, Central and Southern Africa, for providing quality broadband to businesses. We are laying 100km of new fibre every week but have decided to partner for the time being in West Africa so that we can immediately meet demand from businesses there.
Elia Tsouros, MTN’s Enterprise Business Unit Head of Global Sales
This partnership will provide great benefits to our customers. We will be able to leverage each other’s products and services to improve our offerings to carrier and enterprise customers in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. In addition, we have the opportunity to offer our customers services beyond our footprint, thanks to the combined footprints of both companies, as well as those of our partners. Furthermore, this partnership reinforces our extensive service offerings in country and internationally.
