Somaliland-based telecoms operators Telesom and Somtel have signed an interconnection agreement allowing users of one network to communicate with customers of the other, reports The Somaliland Chronicle. Abdiweli Abdillahi Soufi, Somaliland’s Minister of Information and Communication Technology, commented on the development: ‘The main challenge is the tough competition between the two leading operators in the...
wingu.africa group limited (“Wingu”) is pleased to announce the first phase of its Berbera, Somaliland carrier-neutral data center was commissioned on 13 February 2021 and is now ready for service. The facility is the first of its kind in Somaliland and is designed to meet Wingu’s customers’ growing demand for digital services. The data center,...
In accordance with its ambition to become a technological hub in the Horn of Africa, Somaliland wants to build a digital identity. The small territory explores potential avenues with other African nations. Somaliland expressed to Sierra Leone the desire for collaboration in the field of information and communication technologies. Thursday, January 21, his Minister of ICT, Abdiweli...
The House of the Representatives of the Republic of Somaliland, Saturday, took off all fetters from the free provision of Internet Fibre optic services in the market. Law No. 50/2011 has, since that year, closed the market in honour of a 25-year concession it gave to a relative newcomer to the telecommunication market, Somcable, a...
The Somaliland government declared on January 22, 2020 that it had not been informed of the landing of the submarine optical fiber cable DARE1 on its coast in Berbera. At a press briefing, Abdiweli Abdullahi Sheikh Yussuf, the Minister of Telecommunications, Post and Technology, said that “the government of Somaliland has no prior information and has...
