Somtel


سومتيل
Mobile network operator.
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 1998
Las Anod, Somalia
Headquarters Hargeisa, Somalia, Somalia
Key people
 Ahmed Noh Saeed
Products Mobile communication
Owner Dahabshiil: 95%[1]
Website www.somtelnetwork.net

Somtel (Somali: Somtel, Arabic: سومتيل‎) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Hargeisa, the capital of the internationally unrecognised Republic of Somaliland.[2]

Regions

Somtel provides services in all over Somalia.

Background

One of Somalia's and Somaliland's leading telecommunications firms, it provides a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to customers, including Mobile Money Service and the G and G services provider in Somalia network.[3]

Somtel is largely owned by Dahabshiil, but is officially registered in the British Virgin Islands.[4]

Services

[5] [6] [7]

Partnerships

O3b

In November 2013, O3b Networks, Ltd. announced an agreement to provide high-speed, low-latency capacity to Somtel. The pact is expected to improve the firm's networks and reliability.[8]

Google

Since 2012, Somtel has partnered with Google in e-mail services.[9][10]

Frequency Band

Somtel operates on GSM and 4G LTE networks. 3G 2100, 2G 1800, 900 and LTE 800MHz 20 FDD.

References

  1. ↑ Made in China
  2. ↑ "Regions – Somtel International LTD". www.somtelnetwork.net. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  3. ↑ Somtel - About Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Global Car, Mobiles, Fix Line Phones, Internet Equipments trader - Somtel International Limited". www.made-in-china.com. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  5. ↑ https://www.china.com/global-development/2014/may/19/somaliland-mobile-money-zaad-Blocked inflation-economy-banking-remittance
  6. ↑ http://www.somalilandpress.com/somalilandsomtel-launches-e-dahab-mobile-money-services/
  7. ↑ http://www.microcapital.org/blocked microcapital-brief-dahabshiil-to-launch-e-dahab-mobile-money-service-in-somalilandmicrocapital-brief-dahabshiil-to-launch-e-dahab-mobile-money-service-in-somalia/
  8. ↑ O3b Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ "Chat Help". support.google.com. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-11. Retrieved 2013-11-17.
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