MTN targets 8.3 million new users

South Africa’s MTN expects to add 8.3 million new users in the 2017 financial year, a document handed out at the firm’s results presentation showed on Thursday.
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However, MTN shares rose nearly 10 percent after Africa’s largest mobile network operator said it would pay a total dividend of 700 cents a share in spite of the loss, compared with 1,310 in 2015.

The company had agreed to pay a fine of $1.1bn to Nigerian government which was reduced from $5.2bn in June 2016 over missing a deadline to cut off unregistered SIM cards.
The fine on MTN wiped $768m per share from the firms in 2016 headline earnings, South Africa’s main measure of profit.

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