Africa-Press – Ghana. Mr Ralph Mupita, the Group President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN, says Africa should foster invesment in digital infrastructure to ensure growth and socio-economic development.
Embracing technologies such as 5G, non-terrestrial networks and generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) were critical drivers of future progress and socio-economic development, he said.
“The continent ought to get its infrastructural policies right to avoid the risk of being left behind in the digital age,” Mr Mupita said in an interaction with the media, in Accra.
The engagement, held under the auspices of the ‘MTN Bright Conversations’, saw the CEO highlighting the telecommunication giant’s vision to lead the continent’s digital transformation.
The company is working with policy makers and relevant stakeholders to build a local ecosystem that balances relevance, global competitiveness, and sustainable investment.
Mr Mupita touched on the need for fiscal policy reforms, sufficient spectrum resources to meet surging demand for data services, reliable grid power, and digital skills development to drive structural growth of the digital economy.
“At MTN, we believe that these foundational policy positions, consistently adopted across the continent, have the power to drive structural growth of the digital economy, and realise the continent’s full potential as we look to achieve the goals of the AU Agenda 2063 and beyond,” he said.
On the company’s strategic vision beyond ‘Ambition 2025’, the Group President said MTN’s future lay in harnessing the structural growth of digital connectivity, fintech, and digital infrastructure.
“This tripartite focus aligns with Africa’s digital transformation needs, positioning MTN to enable socio-economic development through technology,” he noted.
Currently, the company serves nearly 300 million customers, emerging as Africa’s largest and one of the world’s biggest telecom operators outside China and India.
“Our work is about empowering people to build a better life for themselves and their loved ones. We simply leverage technology to deliver opportunities,” Mr Mupita stated.
Highlighting the company’s performance in the first half of 2025, he cited a 4.7 per cent growth in subscribers across Africa, adding that mobile money users, data and digital services also recorded significant growth.
“Ghana played an important role in this performance. Those results would not have been as strong without the contribution from MTN Ghana,” the Group President stated.
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