Latest Telecoms News about Somalia
Somali Telecoms Sector Must Fast-track Interconnectivity
In a talk this week at Oxford University, CEO of Dahabshiil Abdirashid Duale called for faster progress towards interconnectivity in the Somali territories' burgeoning telecoms sector. ...
Related Tags:
Telesom Launches First 3G Network in Somaliland
Somaliland based mobile network, Telesom says that it has launched the first 3G network in the self-declared breakaway northern part of Somalia....
Related Tags: telesom, somaliland
Internet lifeline cut in Mogadishu
Telecommunications companies based in Somalia's largest open-air market have been hit by stray shells in the latest round of fighting, leading to internet failure in the past four days....
Related Tags:
Somalia to Start Taxing its Mobile Phone Networks
The Somalia government plans to start regulating its ultra-free market mobile phone networks and applying taxes to the phone companies to boost growth and investment,...
Related Tags: interconnection
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....
Related Tags: somafone, tecore-networks, vsat, radio--access-network, radio, managed-services, africa, tecore
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....
Related Tags: sharia, police, security, court, terrorist
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....
Related Tags: africa, court, military
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....
Related Tags:
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....
Related Tags: compete, landline, taxes
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |