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Latest Telecoms News from Tanzania
Zain Expands Mobile Banking Service
Zain has announced an upgrade to its mobile banking service, Zap to enable customers to receive money from any bank account around the world and send money to any bank in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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Monitise Signs Mobile Banking Partnership in East Africa
Mobile banking service provider, Monitise says that it is extending its business further into Africa and the Middle East with a joint venture with Paynet, an electronics payment company....
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Vodacom Enables Payment of Electricity Bills Through Mobile Phones
Vodacom Tanzania subscribers are now able to pre-pay for their electricity via the M-Pesa mobile payments service. This project is a joint venture between Vodacom Tanzania and the electricity generator, Tanesco....
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Improving Mobile Phone Coverage Across Lake Victoria
Mobile phone coverage across Africa's Lake Victoria is to be expanded in a joint venture between Zain, and Ericsson, in an initiative coordinated by the GSM Association. ...
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East Africa's telecoms competition laboratory spurs fast growth
The top mobile markets in East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands are amongst the most liberalised on the continent. The top three markets are Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and they all have about 10 million subscribers....
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Vodacom Tanzania Signs Local Bank for M-Pesa Mobile Banking Service
Vodacom Tanzania has officially signed up BOA Bank to provide Vodafone M-PESA services to its clientele....
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World Bank Approves Funding to Extend Affordable Communications Services
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of US$151 million to extend access to affordable communications services to Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania....
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CDMA Network Launched in Tanzania
A new network has launched in Tanzania, as Dovetel started its CDMA network in Dar-es-Salaam. The network, branded as Sasatel will expand its network in several phases over the next few years. ...
Related Tags: dovetel, sasatel, cdma, dar-es-salaam, gsm, tigo, fibre-optic
Tanzania to Require SIM Registration
Tanzania's government has joined the growing trend for countries to require all PrePay SIM cards to be registered with the network operators, citing the usual reasons of crime and terrorism. ...
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Tanzania starts US$840 million marine cable project
Tanzania's efforts to set up a communication system to connect international broadband networks started with the laying of a US$600 million undersea cable in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday....
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