African MNO MTN has announced two separate projects, hoping to improve the quality of calls made on its network with Meta, and launching a streaming platform with video specialist Synamedia. Improving the user experience and creating new revenue streams are the name of the game with the two deals, as MTN looks to extend its reach. With Meta, the focus is on the ‘over the top’ (OTT) applications that many consumers use, in place of the core SMS and voice telephony functions of MNOs like MTN. We have spoken frequently about the manner in which greed in the 3G era led to high usage prices that then opened the door for these OTT apps. This was the classic story in…