Halotel Business Director, Abdallah Salum said in Dar es Salaam last week that the 4G towers have also been deployed in all regions of Zanzibar with the bulk of them stationed in remote areas. “We believe that when modern telecommunication services are accessible to everyone as part of everyday life, then contribution to socio-economic development is enormous,” Salum said
He pointed out that the telco which was contracted by the government to extend communication services to marginalized rural areas of the country in 2015, target to increase its subscribers from the current seven million to 10 million by 2023.
Salum said his company is continuing to roll out 4G towers to different areas across the country where such services have never existed before saying the target is have more customers upgrading their 3G number to 4G. “With 4G services, Halotel’s subscribers who are still using 3G sim-cards can swap them and get 4G for free and get bonus internet data for use in three days,” he added.
According to date from Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority, Halotel remains the fastest growing mobile phone services company in the country with seven million registered users in September 2021 with almost a million new subscribers in a year.
Salum noted that the telco’s mobile money platform, Halopesa is also doing well in the market with a target to reach five million from the current over 2.4 million subscribers. “We thank our customers for choosing Halotel as their preferred network for the past six years that we have been in operations,” the Business Director noted. Halotel Tanzania which is a subsidiary of Vietman’s Viettel Group, has the widest mobile communication coverage in the country with network of up to 95 percent of country.
Seconding his peer, Halotel’s Director of Technical Operations, Justus Kashashari said so far, the company has connected 5,100 villages across the country. The telco which collaborates with Universal Communication Service Access Fund has since 2018, managed to connect 220 villages to mobile communications with 44 of them connected last year.
“With support from UCSAF, we will continue to increase service coverage to more villages where there is poor or no mobile communications services,” Kashashari said adding that in some of the villages where 2G network is deployed, they will upgrade to 3G and where possible 4G.
Source: https://www.ippmedia.com/en/business/halotel-deploys-800-4g-communication-towers-countrywide
