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COVID-19: MTN provides customers free services – Official

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MTN Nigeria says it has provided its customers with a range of free services to help make communication easier during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Its Company Secretary, Uto Ukpanah, also said the company has provided an update on the utilisation so far of its network initiatives to provide its customers and partners with connectivity.

Ukpanah said in a statement on Friday that these were in addition to the MTNā€™s direct contributions to support the fight against COVID-19.

He listed some of the supports to include: donations to CACOVID (N1 billion), Federal and State Governments (Communications support) and the NCDC (Devices, airtime, SMS channel and data) MTN.

According to him, as at May 15, 2020, our network has provided: more than 2 Billion free SMS sent by over 40 million subscribers.

ā€œAbout 3,000 Terrabytes of free data utilised to access zero-rated health websites, and access to Ayoba, our partner messaging app;

ā€œOver 1.7 million free money transfers by about 100,000 people using the MoMo Agent Network (offer ended May 1).

On the update, the company Chief Executive Officer, Ferdi Moolman said: ā€œSince we began providing 300 free SMSā€™s per month to our subscribers more than two billion SMS have been sent by more than 44 million subscribers.

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