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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 15 October 2015 |
| Headquarters | Tanzanite Park, New Bagamoyo Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Area served | Tanzania |
Key people | Nguyen Tien Dung (Managing Director) |
| Products | GSM-related products Internet services |
Number of employees | 702 (F.Y. 2023)[1] (Tanzanian Employees) |
| Parent | Viettel Group |
| Website | www |
Viettel Tanzania Public Limited Company, trading as Halotel, is a mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and communication services in Tanzania. It is owned by Viettel Global JSC[2] which is the state-owned Investment Company from Vietnam investing in the Telecommunications market in several countries worldwide. It has invested up to $1 Billion into the Tanzania's telecommunications market.[3] The Company was the first company in Tanzania allowed to lay its own fiber optic cable and has placed over 18,000 km of optic fiber, providing all 26 regions of Tanzania with telecommunication services.[4]
The Tanzanian telecom market is one of the most competitive markets in Africa and Tanzania has over 79% mobile phone penetration.[5] The company aims to capitalize on the providing a very wide coverage as quickly as possible and the company claims to cover over 81% of the country's area soon to be the higher than any of the major providers.[6]
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- ^ "Viettel Global JSC".
- ^ "Halotel - Who we are". Archived from the original on 2023-03-21. Retrieved 2015-12-20.
- ^ "Viettel Tanzania wins award for its investment projects - News VietNamNet". english.vietnamnet.vn. Archived from the original on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ^ "TCRA June 2015 Statistics" (PDF). tcra.go.tz. Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority. June 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ "A company owned by Vietnam's military will put $1 billion into Tanzania's mobile market". Quartz. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
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