MTN announces 5 hours network disruption today
Mobile Telecommunication Network, MTN Nigeria, has announced that there would be a 5-hour disruption in its network services today due to an upgrade of its system.
MTN which made this known in a statement to its 79 million subscribers and obtained by Periscope International said the system upgrade would be carried out between 12:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., on Thursday.
This means MTN’s 79.6 million telephone subscribers and 63.89 million data subscribers will experience service disruption during the period.
The statement reads: “Dear customer, you may experience some difficulty using MTN services on October 6, 2022, from 12:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. due to a system upgrade.
“We regret any inconvenience this may cause.”
The development comes at a time that MTN Nigeria subscribers complained of poor call and internet services.
It would be recalled that on October 10,last year, Africa’s foremost mobile telecommunications provider suffered a nationwide downtime for about four hours.