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198:. As of September 2017, Airtel Tanzania had 10.6 million voice subscribers. As of December 2017 according to data provided by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority, Airtel Tanzania controlled 27.1 percent of Tanzania's mobile telephone market by customer numbers, at that time estimated at 10.86 million.
330:, the chairman of Bharti Airtel, held in January 2019, the India-based conglomerate agreed to cede more shareholding to the government, in order to settle existing ownership disputes. Following the agreed transfer of shares, the ownership in the company will appear as illustrated in the table below.
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Tanzania was licensed as the mobile operator in the country in November 2001. The license was the result of Tanzania Communications Commission ( TCC ) to decide and to change its zonal licenses into national licenses in 1998. The changes was because the numbers of subscribers in the country
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January 2016 Airtel Africa operates in 17 African countries. Marketed as "One Network" airtel was the first telecom company in Africa to provide a border less solution for its customer across the continent. With this service airtel customer can freely roam in other airtel operating countries
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During the privatisation of
Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL), Celtel International was in partnership with Detecon of Germany. The two companies invested an initial $ 60 million in TTCL in February 2001 for a 35% shareholding in TTCL. In the new partnership with TTCL, Celtel
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Tanzania and TTCL were legally separated, allowing each to administer its own financial and business operations. In this new formally signed agreement between the Tanzanian Government and Celtel Tanzania, TTCL's shareholding structure remained unchanged, with the
256:, obtained 35% shares from the Government of Tanzania. Thus, the consortium (Celtel International and Detecon ) took over Board and Management control of TTCL and thus made it essentially an autonomous company. Celtel is currently owned by sub group originating from UAE.
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Recharging while roaming on the "One
Network" can be done both in local currency or can be done remotely from one's home country. The airtel money services do not work across borders, however there are plans to implement airtel money between Kenya and Tanzania.
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government of
Tanzania holding 65% and Celtel International the remaining 35%. In the aftermath, Celtel Tanzania's structure was changed so as to follow the government’s decision to sell a 25% stake in the cellco to Celtel International for USD28 million.
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Airtel
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was very low (i.e. a total of 37,940 in 1998) and operators were concentrating on a few zones only (i.e. the coastal area near Dar es Salaam and
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performance of TTCL for the year 2000. Based on this "Expert
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501:"Tanzanian government disapproves of Airtel Africa IPO"
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580:"Market Liberalization Strategy: 2001 – present"
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684:"Bharti Closes US$ 9 Billion Zain Africa Deal"
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335:Shareholding In Airtel Tanzania stock
222:Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
7:
1221:Tanzanian wireless network operators
647:Elinaza, Abduel (22 November 2010).
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163:The Airtel Tanzania Headquarters.
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350:% Ownership After January 2019
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201:The company is a component of
88:Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road, north
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1228:GSM-900/1800 MHz (GPRS, EDGE)
545:Team VCC (26 November 2018).
1073:Bharti Axa General Insurance
612:Celtel and TTCL part company
302:Acquisition by Bharti Airtel
218:General Packet Radio Service
457:MIC Tanzania Limited (tiGO)
273:Celtel Tanzania Partnership
182:, which is a subsidiary of
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420:Airtel Africa coverage.
172:mobile network operator
168:Airtel Tanzania Limited
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379:Government of Tanzania
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72:; 14 years ago
657:Daily News (Tanzania)
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170:is the third-largest
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1043:Europe India Gateway
996:Airtel Payments Bank
467:Celtel International
238:Celtel International
1321:Telecom authorities
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290:Acquisition by Zain
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911:Indus Towers
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53:Predecessors
33:Company type
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1313:(GSM, UMTS)
1307:(4G TD-LTE)
1011:Tata Docomo
1001:Airtel Zero
887:Enterprises
693:7 September
688:Reuters.com
412:One Network
246:Netherlands
209:outside of
101:Area served
1348:Categories
1027:Wynk Music
734:16 January
627:Zain Group
596:28 January
553:16 January
530:16 January
507:16 January
483:References
437:Bangladesh
424:See also:
77:2010-06-08
809:6 January
784:6 January
759:6 January
667:11 August
441:Sri Lanka
280:financial
242:Amsterdam
190:, behind
118:Broadband
1173:Category
934:Consumer
725:Quoting
661:Archived
632:6 August
451:See also
267:Zanzibar
260:Licensed
176:Tanzania
110:Products
105:Tanzania
94:Tanzania
43:Industry
1311:Halotel
1237:Vodacom
1083:Easyday
1048:I-ME-WE
1020:Digital
727:Reuters
472:Vodacom
254:Germany
250:Detecon
232:History
147:.airtel
140:Website
92:, east
75: (
67:Founded
1296:(UMTS)
1294:Egotel
1278:MyCell
1252:Zantel
1242:Airtel
1130:Others
1092:People
916:OneWeb
885:Bharti
404:100.00
399:100.00
207:Africa
129:Parent
37:Public
1300:Smart
1287:Other
902:India
590:(PDF)
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394:Total
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370:51.0
363:India
341:Rank
252:from
188:India
1261:CDMA
1247:Tigo
981:Robi
811:2016
786:2016
761:2016
736:2019
695:2014
669:2022
634:2015
598:2008
555:2019
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