Business27.10.2010

MTN Business rebrands UUNET-Kenya

MTN Business, a wholly owned division of MTN,  Africa’s leading telecommunications company, celebrates the integration of UUNET Kenya into its stable, in a move set to improve the competitiveness of Kenya’s business sector through offering them world-class telecommunications solutions, UUNET Kenya has been rebranded to MTN Business Kenya with immediate effect.

“An array of key structures and network transitions has been implemented to deliver standardised service and seamless integration for customers culminating with the official name change, MTN Business Kenya,” said Managing Director Mr. Tom Omariba.

“With the rebrand, one of our core objectives is to open up the region for business with additional value added services offerings,” said Mr. Omariba.

As organisations across the Globe are moving their data to the cloud, MTN Business is building an African cloud enabling MTN Business Kenya to introduce quality business solutions such as server virtualisation and virtual storage to the region. MTN Business Kenya will also ensure the turnaround time of these solutions to the regional market is within international best practice.

Omariba added that this was officially in line with the MTN Business vision of driving industry competitiveness and giving our customers competitive advantages through the use of technology now.”

Omariba’ said the company would continue to provide solutions in the data sphere and would carry Internet traffic from pan-African networks to the rest of the world by leveraging the MTN Business infrastructure.

The Managing Executive for MTN Business, Angela Gahagan said the MTN Business brand was all about leadership, innovation, can-do, relationships and integrity.

“Today we are proud to bring this brand ethos to the Internet service provider sub sector in Kenya. This rebrand reiterates MTN Business’s commitment to offer corporations across Africa and other emerging markets our “360 degree” service offering – an approach designed to give clients peace of mind in their communication needs, pinned on reliability and availability,” she said.

Gahagan said with the pan African and global reach of MTN Business, MTN Business Kenya was now uniquely positioned to assist with the advanced and diverse solutions required by the company’s customers.

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