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 Mozambican government has promised to present a plan to reform state backed Mocambique Telecom (Tmcel) by the first quarter of 2023. The pledge was made by Mateus Magala, the Minister of Transport and Communications, who hopes to avoid the privatisation of the company, which he says is in a ‘gloomy situation’. Local website Club...
The customers of TMCEL, one of the largest telecom firms in Mozambique, will now be able to benefit from the financial ease offered by Ericsson’s mobile financial services solutions as TMCEL went live with the Ericsson Wallet Platform yesterday. Ericsson’s solution is expected to broaden the community of financial transactions by further contributing to the...
Vodacom Mozambique has reached an agreement with state-owned Mozambique Telecom (Tmcel) over the ongoing 60-million meticais (about US$10-million) interconnection debt dispute. In June Vodacom threatened to cancel its interconnection agreement with Tmcel which would have prevented Tmcel customers from being able to call Vodacom numbers. Vodacom said Tmcel had failed to settle the debt and...
Mocambique Telecom (Tmcel) says it is planning a network development programme which will see it extend 4G coverage nationwide while also preparing the way for future 5G services. Under a USD23 million contract with Chinese vendor Huawei, Tmcel has been upgrading its networks in Maputo and Matola, while it is also seeking financing to modernise...
Mozambique’s telecommunications industry regulator, the Mozambique National Communications Institute (INCM) has stepped in to defuse a dispute between Vodacom and state-owned Mozambique Telecom (Tmcel) over a 60 million Meticais (about US$10-million) interconnection debt. Vodacom has accused Tmcel of failure to comply with the interconnection contract between the two operators and said the debt has been...
The mobile phone company Vodacom-Mocambique (a subsidiary of the South African company Vodacom) has threatened to end its interconnection with the publicly owned company TMcel, which would make it impossible for TMcel subscribers to ring Vodacom numbers. A Vodacom press release says it has been forced to take this decision because of a large debt...
Mozambique fixed and wireless operator Mocambique Telecom (TMCEL) is improving its mobile money services under a new five-year deal with Ericsson to expand and modernise its network and digital services ecosystem. The deal includes the vendor’s latest Business Support Systems (BSS) solutions and supporting services such as Ericsson Dynamic Activation and Ericsson Mobile Money. Todd...
