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Tanzania : SMART TELECOM unveils mobile operating subsidiary in TANZANIA [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Smart Telecom declared that it has unveiled a mobile operating subsidiary in Tanzania. The telecom company is owned by Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), the infrastructure and industrial development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED). The company has also introduced its sister company in Uganda, revealed last month. The AKFED is planning to introduce in Burundi. It has also allocated USD300 million investment across the three East African markets. The Tanzanian wireless market is already home to five full fledged cellular mobile operators: Vodacom, Airtel, Tigo, Zantel and Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd (TTCL), while TeleGeography s GlobalComms Database mentions that Smile Communications operates 4G TD-LTE wireless broadband services in the country, alongside CDMA fixed-wireless voice/data network operators Benson Informatics (BOL) and Sasatel. Four other players are MyCell, EGOTEL, 4G Mobile and Telesis that possessing technology-neutral network operating concessions via which they intend to provide wireless data-focused services (based on CDMA, W-CDMA, mobile WiMAX and LTE, respectively). (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |