Visafone loses 1.6m subscribers in four months lMTN fails to rescue operator as 77% customers quit CDMA network Kunle Azeez
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xpectations that MTN’s acquisition of Visafone would
create a rebound in the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) sub-sector of the nation’s telecoms industry have been dashed,
latest checks by New Telegraph have revealed. According to findings, of more than three-quarter of MTN’s Visafone-acquired
subscribers, 77 per cent of the total at acquisition, have dumped the CDMA operator so far, following its acquisition last January.
In January, when MTN announced its final acquisition of Visafone, the CDMA network had about 2.14 million active sub-
scribers on its network, according to official data obtained from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). New Telegraph’s invesCONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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