Across the group, voice traffic (billable minutes) increased by 2% and total data traffic by 145%. Group subscribers decreased by 1,5% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) largely as a result of restatements to subscriber numbers in Ghana, Rwanda and Zambia. MTN group has a new CEO, chief financial officer and chief operating officer, who have begun a review of the business to identify where further improvements can be made. MTN Group president and CEO Rob Shuter comments: "In the first three months of the year we saw a continuation of the improving operational momentum experienced in the fourth quarter of 2016. While we still have work to do to meet our full-year targets, we continue to leverage off the progress made during 2016 and are encouraged by the progress in project IGNITE* in both South Africa and Nigeria.