MTN lost subscribers in most of its key markets in the September quarter, but raised its average revenue in local currencies from those who remained.Measured in rand, however, the mobile network operator’s total revenue declined by 13.4%, it said in a quarterly operating update on Tuesday morning.Its largest market, Nigeria, saw customer numbers fall 5.2% to 50.3-million.MTN said this was due to "the modernisation of subscriber definitions". MTN Nigeria reported an 11.2% increase in total revenue measured in naira supported by data revenue growth of 72.1%.In SA, MTN’s overall subscriber numbers declined by 1% to 30.9-million. It gained about 33,000 postpaid customers to take the total to 5.2-million but lost about 341,000 prepaid customers to take the total to 25.7-million.The drop in South African prepaid customers was "mainly the result of higher churn following the withdrawal of a second-quarter promotion" MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter said in the statement.MTN’s average revenue per u...
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