Telecommunications in
Somaliland, an autonomous region in northwestern Somalia, are mainly concentrated in the private sector. A number of local telecommunications firms operate in the region, including Telesom, NationLink Telecom, Somtel, SomCable
Telesom
Telesom was established in 2001.
[1] It has since become the leading provider of
telecommunications services
in the region. Telesom currently controls 90% of Somaliland's mobile
subscribers, with the remaining 10% shared between the remaining
operators. The firm provides a variety of mobile communication products
and services including prepaid call plans, monthly subscription plans,
international roaming, MMS, WAP (over both GSM and GPRS), residential
fixed line services, broadband internet access as well as prepaid and
postpaid 4G subscription services.
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Somcable
In 2010, SomeCable is Leader Company In the ISP, SomCable Ltd announced that it was contracted to pull submarine cable from
Djibouti port to
Berbera.
SomCable declared it would invest $35 million USD to complete the
project which employed more than 10,000 locals workers. Funding for the
project came from local businessman Mohamed Said MSG.
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The project will ensure that high speed wireless technology capable of
delivering sufficient scalable bandwidth to residents of Somaliland is
available at the site. The initiative is completed in September 2014.
Somaliland is currently the only Fiber operator in the country. As of
October 2014, Somcable Launched the first LTE solution in Somaliland,
the first GEPON/ FTTP solution in Somaliland.
In 2008,
Dahabshiil acquired a majority stake in
Somtel, a Somaliland-based telecommunications firm specialising in high speed
broadband,
mobile Internet, and
mobile phone services.
[2][3] The acquisition provided Dahabshiil with the necessary platform for a subsequent expansion into
mobile banking, a growth industry in the regional banking sector.
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