MTN to offer mobile football content

MTN is to offer football coverage as content on mobile

devices to subscribers across Africa for the 2008 MTN

Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Ghana. The service

will include SMS notifications, AFCON sanctioned video

and still pictures. Subscribers can select the content

of the package they want from highlights of games to

statistics and scores of matches, and downloads of

country flags of the participating teams, team shirts,

national anthems and football ringtones.