Halotel

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Viettel Tanzania Public Limited Company (Halotel)
Type Public
Industry Telecommunications
Founded15 October 2015;7 years ago (15 October 2015)
Headquarters Dar Es Salaam (New Bagamoyo road, Tanzanite Park, 10th floor), 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.halotel.co.tz

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]

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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]

History

Halotel was launched in October 2015 and deployed in all 26 Tanzanian regions. [7] [8] This was Viettel's fourth investment in Africa after Movitel, Lumitel and Nexttel in Mozambique, Burundi and Cameroon respectively. [9] Viettel started investing in the country in 2011 and planned $736 million in investment after the then president Jakaya Kikwete made a state visit to Vietnam. The goal of the government was to encourage rural mobile connectivity in the country where and the government saw fit to increase competition by allowing Viettel to operate in the country. [4]

The entry of Viettel also saw further liberalization of the communication sector, where the government allowed private companies to lay their own optic fiber cables. The company had promised to connect several public institutions around the country with the optic fibre network and connect over 1500 villages to the telecommunication grid that were previously not served. [10] The company also tried to partner with state-owned energy company Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) to use TANESCO's power poles to serve as antennas, however due to high costs the plan was abandoned. [11]

The company has successfully obtained licenses to operate its mobile money services HALOPESA to help it compete with Tanzania's well established operators. [12]

Coverage

Halotel currently covers all regions of Tanzania with its 2G and 3G network via the 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz Frequency Spectrums and is on an ongoing deployment of telecommunication towers and sites to cover all regions with its 4G network. To improve on its 4G coverage and capacity, Halotel obtained additional 2600MHz Frequency Spectrum as auctioned off by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority in October 2022. [13]

Subscription and Market Share

As of March 2023, Halotel boasts a total of 8,146,036 subscribers out of the 61.9 Million Mobile telecommunication services subscribers in Tanzania which is a 13% market share. [14] Halotel through its HaloPesa mobile money service boasts a sum of 3,821,098 subscribers with access to the service in the country, a total of 9% market share in the Mobile financial services space. [14]

Viettel Group

Map showing countries with Viettel Group presence Viettel Global operating countries map.svg
Map showing countries with Viettel Group presence

Viettel Group is a Vietnam based telecommunications group. It is a state-owned enterprise wholly owned and operated by the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam. The company has a customer base of over 75 million as of 2014 and made over $8 billion in revenue. [15] As of December 2015,the Group has subsidiaries in: [16]

Viettel Group global subsidiaries (December 2015)
AfricaAmericasAsia
Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi Lumitel Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti NatcomFlag of Cambodia.svg  Cambodia Metfone
Flag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon NexttelFlag of Peru.svg  Peru BitelFlag of Laos.svg  Laos Unitel
Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique Movitel Flag of East Timor.svg  East Timor Telemor
Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania HalotelFlag of Myanmar.svg  Myanmar Viettel Mytel
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Viettel Mobile

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