Latest Telecoms News from Somalia
Somali Network Expands Coverage with 120km Wide GSM Cells
Somafone, a GSM mobile network operator in Somalia has launched service in the Puntland region including Garowe, Galkaio, Bosaso and other cities, utilizing hosted managed services from Tecore Networks....
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Mobile Phone Thieves have Hand and Foot Amputated by Court Order
In Somalia's capital, the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia amputated a hand and a foot each from four young men accused of stealing guns and mobile phones. The militia has imposed a harsh brand of Islamic law in areas of Somalia under its control....
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Somali Court Orders Amputations for Mobile Phone Thieves
A court under the control of a Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab has ordered four young men suspected of stealing guns and mobile phones to have a hand and a leg amputated, but the punishment was postponed....
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Somalia mobile phone services disrupted following shelling on transmission device
The open air artillery barrages of the joint Somali-Ethiopian forces in the Mogadishu market of Bakara have destroyed one of the largest telecommunications network in Somalia, leaving all cell phone services idle on Sunday morning....
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Telecoms Flourish In Strife-Torn Somalia
Telecommunications is one of the rare business successes in strife-torn Somalia, with three major phone companies. The major companies are Hormuud, Nationlink and Telecom, which compete in the field of mobile and landline phones....
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