3 responses to “Y’ello banking”

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   Zuko

   15 years Ago

   Monday’s fact said there were 16.4 million MTN subscribers. Now you say 9.6 million.

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      amnon

      15 years Ago

      The 16.4 million figure is from MTN – they are counting “customers who have participated in a revenue generating activity in the last 90 days.” The 9.6 million is from AMPS, a national survey where South African adults were asked which network they use.

      The difference is largely due to (a) some have more than one sim card, (b) sim cards belonging to kids, or people who would not be part of the AMPS survey for some reason (illegal immigrants, perhaps), (c) sim cards which people regard as dormant, but MTN doesn’t.

      Perhaps MTN can be more authoritative. Anybody?

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   MTN Guy

   15 years Ago

   Amnon’s comment above is 100% correct in terms of explaining the difference. The only thing that I would add is telemetry devices using SIMS and foreigners/ immigrants that wouldn’t be included in the AMPS universe.

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