Roy Mutooni

Good day, everybody, and thank you for joining us to discuss the MTN Group trading update for the 3 months ended March 2026. My name is Roy Mutooni. I'm Head of Group Investor Relations for MTN. On the call with me is Ralph Mupita, our Group President and CEO; and Tsholo Molefe, our Group CFO.

Our trading update was published this morning on the JSE and is posted on our website on the Investor Relations page. We also released the pro forma financial information for FY 2025 related to the IHS transaction that remains in progress. You would also have seen the Q1 releases from our listed opcos over the past few weeks, and I trust that you are able to join their respective investor calls.

The running agenda for the call will be as usual. Ralph will start with an overview of the operational performance. He will be followed by Tsholo with a review of our financial performance. Ralph will then come back to wrap up with key focus areas and the outlook. We will then move into Q&A. I encourage you to use the webcast platform to send through your questions, which I will then read out at the end. Finally, a reminder that the call is scheduled for about an hour.

With that, I'd like to hand over to Ralph Mupita.

Ralph Mupita
Group President, CEO & Executive Director

Thank you, Roy, and a very good afternoon or morning to you all, depending on your location. Let's get straight to the results delivered in the period. In Q1 2026, the group delivered a strong start