MTN sponsors Journalists to attend the 16th Annual Highway Africa conference

As part of MTN Uganda?s contribution to the profession of journalism, MTN teamed up with Ericsson to provide a four day certified training opportunity for journalists covering the telecommunications sector.

The training that brought together close to 30 media professionals was a much welcomed venture by the media. The different media houses were asked to nominate participants which they willing did as this was a worthwhile investment towards the Uganda media fraternity.

This training that has been held in a number of countries where the MTN Group operates, has been noted to enrich the quality and depth of knowledge that journalists utilize when reporting on the telecommunications sector overall.

This is the first training of its kind in Uganda and MTN intends to hold more of these trainings periodically to keep the media abreast with the global trends in telecommunications.

MTN CEO, Mazen Mrou? said ?MTN Uganda is committed to continuously invest in the community and in the media as they are our partners in development and in communication with all our stakeholders?.

Each participant was awarded an International Certificate as an "Excel Telecom Professional" at the end of the training. The certification ceremony was graced with representatives from the Ministry of ICT as well as the Uganda Communications Commission.

"I would like to congratulate each participant that has successfully completed this training. I am sure that by the end of this training, all of you that that have participated are more knowledgeable about the telecom sector as a whole", Mrou? added.

To crown off the event, Faridah Kulabako, a business reporter from Monitor Publications was announced as the lucky winner of a round trip all expenses paid trip to South Africa. She will be travelling to Grahamstown-South Africa to attend the 16th Annual Highway Africa conference that will be held from 9th to 11th September. Harriet Anena from Monitor publications and Mathias Mazinga from New Vision will also be sponsored by MTN to attend the same conference. This year?s conference will attract close to 600 delegates, the highest number since its inception- it will be themed is ?Africa Rising?.

ABOUT MTN UGANDA

MTN Uganda started operations in 1998 and quickly became the leading telecommunications firm in the country. By 2011, the company had accumulated close to seven million subscribers in a market that boasts of about 10 million mobile phone subscribers. MTN Uganda is part of the MTN Group, a multinational telecommunications group operating in 21 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The MTN Group is listed on the JSE Securities Exchange in South Africa under the share code: "MTN". As at August 8 2012, MTN recorded 175.9 million subscribers across its operations in Afghanistan, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d?Ivoire, Cyprus, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Republic, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia.

Visit www.mtn.co.ug, www.mtn.com and www.mtnplay.co.ug for more.

Source: http://www.mtn.co.ug/About-MTN/News-Room/2012/September/MTN-Ericsson-media-training-co.aspx

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