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Tanzania to Require Local Stock Exchange Listing for Mobile Networks

­Tanzania's government has passed a controversial law that will require local mobile network operators to list shares in their companies on the local Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange. The companies will have up to three years to list their shares on the stock exchange.  more

Related Tags: vodacom, -zain, millicom, tigo, zanzibar-telecom, Tanzania


Scientists use cell phone records to predict spread of malaria

­University of Florida researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records.  more

Related Tags: university-of-florida, malaria, Tanzania


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. The company is 65% owned by PME African Infrastructure Opportunities, an investment company established to invest in sub-Saharan African infrastructure and infrastructure related industries.  more

Related Tags: dovetel, sasatel, cdma, gsm, tigo, fibre-optic, zanzibar-telecom, Tanzania


Tanzania starts US$840 million marine cable project

APA-Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) 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.  more

Related Tags: eu, lte, satellite, seacom, fibre-optic, Tanzania


East African ICT sector earnings to hit $788m by 2014

APA - Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Earnings in the ICT sector in East Africa will rise from $164 million in 2007 to a $788 million by 2014 due to a favourable business environment for Internet service providers and growth in broadband connections, according to a just released report by market analyst Frost & Sullivan.  more

Related Tags: ict, satellite


Tanzania launches Zain global brand

APA-Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Jamaican-born reggae star Norville Rogers, better known as Shaggy, will on Friday in Dar es Salaam perform a concert to mark the rebranding of Celtel Africa into Zain global brand in Tanzania.  more

Related Tags: zain, celtel, tickets, Tanzania


Celtel Abolishes Roaming Charges Across Central Africa

MTC subsidiary, Celtel says that it is expanding One Network, it's borderless mobile network, to include the Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of Congo. This comes nine months after the successful launch of One Network in East Africa. more

Related Tags: one-network, celtel, borders, united-nations


Three African Operators Abolish Roaming Charges

Three operators in East Africa have joined up to offer free roaming between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Vodacom Tanzania has teamed up with Safaricom Kenya and MTN Uganda to form the free roaming zone. more

Related Tags: mtn-uganda, mtn, vodacom, safaricom, vodacom-tanzania, borders


MTC Celtel Group launches new growth strategy

Tanzania's Dar es Salaam is to host one of the largest ever gatherings of business executives from the Middle East and Africa. 20 operations of the MTC group are meeting in the country this week to discuss the Group's new growth strategy - ACE (Acceleration, Consolidation, Expansion). more

Related Tags: celtel, saad-al-barrak


Tanzanian dispute resolved

Celtel International (previously known as MSI Cellular) and the Government of Tanzania have concluded the privatisation of the Tanzania Telecommunications Company (TTCL). Celtel International, in partnership with Detecon of Germany, invested an initial US$60 million in TTCL in February 2001 for a 35% shareholding in TTCL. A second payment was dependent on the financial performance of TTCL for the year 2000. After disagreeing on the year-end 2000 accounts, both the Government and Celtel International agreed to be bound by independent "Expert Determination". more

Related Tags: celtel, kpmg


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