Mozambique’s National Institute of Communications (Instituto Nacional de Comunicacoes de Mocambique, INCM) has launched its ‘Internet in Schools’ project as part of a public-private partnership with the SpaceX satellite broadband service Starlink. The scheme aims to connect around 300 educational establishments across the country. Starlink was launched for private customers in Mozambique in June this year. Source:...
Paratus announces that it has launched two game-changing cross-border fiber links in its quest to champion unparalleled connectivity for Mozambique. Paratus now offers an alternative to the sub-sea cable norm by introducing resilience with two distinct fiber routes into South Africa. One of the fiber links traverses Swaziland, and the other follows the Kamati Poort...
Blockchain-powered telecom network World Mobile has successfully launched the world’s first commercial telecoms aerostat. The 11-metre high ‘envelope’ has been deployed close to the Limpopo river in Mozambique where it will be raised to altitude and deliver internet access across a 70-kilometre radius. Barely a quarter of Mozambique’s population has access to the internet, and...
TMCEL launched the second phase of the telecoms network extension and modernization program in January 2022. The company wants to improve its network in order to establish itself in the national market that it competes with Vodacom and Movitel. Mozambique’s historic telecommunications operator TMCEL has deployed 770 new base stations as part of the second...
Vodacom Mozambique has launched the 2Africa cable in Nacala-Porto. According to the telecom provider, it is the first undersea cable to land in the country’s north, and a data facility has also opened in the same city. According to the United Nations, Mozambique is one of the world’s least developed countries, and this landing by...
The CEO of the Vodacom Group, Shameel Joosub, recently conducted a three-day visit to Mozambique, accompanied by the CEO of International Markets for the Vodacom Group, Diego Gutierrez A., and the CEO of Legal Affairs for the Vodacom Group, Nkateko Nyoka. During the visit, the delegation had the opportunity to interact with various partners of...
The SpaceX satellite broadband service Starlink has been launched in Mozambique. The kit costs MZN40,492 (USD628) with a monthly subscription priced at MZN3,000, according to a report from My Broadband. Starlink notes that Mozambique does not yet have a ground station for internet fallback and is currently relying solely on inter-satellite links, which could result...
Tmcel was born in 2019 from the merger of the companies Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TdM) and Mozambique Cellular (Mcel). The company’s activities are weighed down by financial difficulties, some of which were inherited from TdM and Mcel. Mozambique’s public telecommunications company Tmcel is on the verge of bankruptcy, according to Mateus Magala (pictured), Minister of Transport...
The Vodacom group has set itself the goal of improving the lives of 100 million new customers in Africa by 2025. To this end, the company is increasing investments in the modernization of its network on its different African markets. It has already rolled out 5G in Tanzania. Mobile operator Vodacom Mozambique announced on Saturday April...
Mozambique’s telecommunications sector is growing rapidly with 13.8 million active subscribers. The regulator wants to adjust existing regulations to better protect consumers and accelerate digital transformation. The Mozambique Communications Regulatory Authority (INCM) has developed a new “Regulation on the Registration of Telecommunications Services Subscribers” in coordination with mobile operators and other stakeholders. The new regulation,...
