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Somali Telecom
News 1997 - 2003
Private Competition Drives
Down Telephone and Internet Costs in Somalia
United Nations Development Programme, UNDP.ORG,
December 2003
Over the past five years, Somalis have outpaced their
neighbours in East African countries in developing
their information and communications technology.
interWAVE Wins Wireless Network Contract in
Somalia
Arlaadinet.com,
July 11th, 2003
MENLO PARK, Calif. - interWAVE® Communications
International, Ltd. (Nasdaq: IWAV - news), a pioneer
in the wireless industry, today announced that a
division of Somali Telecom Group, North East Telecom Corp.
GSM improves in Somalia
Cellular-News.com,
July 2nd, 2003
interWAVE has announced that Somalia's Nationlink
Telecom, a GSM operator affiliated with the Somali
Telecom Group, has ordered two additional WAVEXchange
II (WXC II) high capacity GSM switches.
Telecom charges plummet in price war by IRIN
AfricaOnline.com,
March 25th, 2002
International telephone calls from the Somali capital,
Mogadishu, which - at US $0.80 per minute - are among
the cheapest in the world, are going down even further
due to increased competition between the city's telecommunication
companies.
Surprise
Success Story - Somalia’s Telecommunications
Sector
Somaliawatch.org,
January 11th, 2002
After years without a central government and an economy in ruins, the success
of Somalia’s telecommunications sector comes as something of a surprise.
150 ISPs Pick Ariel Corp.
Over Legacy Providers Like Cisco, 3Com and Lucent
for Remote Access Technology
Business Wire, BusinessWire.com,
March 6th, 2001
Somalia
carrier Netco also turned to Ariel in order to launch
Somalia's first ISP service. The new service
not only
gives Somalis access to the Internet, but also
enables them to communicate with the one million expatriates
who have fled war-torn Somalia and are now living
in
the U.S.
InterWave
- Somali Telecom
TelecomWeb.com, July 11th, 2000
Somali Telecom Group's North East Telecom
will deploy interWave Communications International's
[IWAV] network products to support GSM services in
Somalia in a $1 million contract covering the first
phase of a 12-month project.
Restoration project:
Bringing telephone service back to Somalia isn't
easy - By Wayne Walley
Global Telephony, GlobalTelephony.com,
December 1st, 1997
A New York-based telecommunications consultant and a contractor from the Baltimore
area in the United States are starting to make some progress with a partnership
of local Somali businesspeople to restore telephone service to Somalia.
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