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ARAB Book 2012
Country Report: SOMALIA
Since 1991, no central government has controlled the entirety of the
country, despite several attempts to establish a unified central
government. The northwestern part of the country has been relativelystable under the self-declared, but unrecognized, sovereign state of
Somaliland. During the two decades of war and lack of government,
Somalia has maintained an informal economy, based mainly on livestock,
remittance/money transfer companies, and telecommunications. The TFG
formed with the help of IGAD, AU and the UN, which is based in Mogadishu
is the only government entity regonized by the UN and the international
community.
1. STRATEGY, POLICIES AND REGULATION
ICT Strategic vision
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1. In order to bring the access of general public of rural and urban areas
of the country to the telecommunication service, arrangement shall be
made in a manner that the telecommunication service shall be
available within the short distance in the inhabitant areas.
2. The telecommunication service shall be made available to meet the
demand in the urban areas of the country. Arrangement shall be made
in a manner that the corporate telecommunication service shall be
available to the business areas.
3. Opportunity shall be provided to the consumers of the urban areas tochoose service from various providers. Arrangement of opportunity to
choose service accordingly shall be gradually extended in the rural
areas also.
4. Arrangement shall be made for getting opportunity to use appropriate
information and communication technology for poverty alleviation and
development of the rural areas.
Universal Service (US) has been identified as having a postal office and a
public telecom booth in every village in Somalia. Mechanisms for financing
US are still being developed through consultation between MIPT and the
Somali operators, including the possibility of establishing a US fund to be
financed through a percentage of telecom revenues. No final decision has
been taken yet1
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were more than 100 thousand users of Internet services2 in the country
with few established ISP and cyber cafes with growth of 4% per year.
There are five telecoms companies. They include:
Al-Barakaat and the Somali Telecom Group, an umbrella for a
number of companies. Both have mobile operations in addition to
fixed line,
Somtel and Telecoms Somalia, are looking at setting up mobileoperations.
Three of the companies provide internet services. The number of
companies providing mobile services reached 12 in 2010.
Mobile
Operators
Operator Technolo
gy
Subscribe
rs (000)
Ownership
1 SOMAFONE GSM 201 Somafone FZ LLC2 Nationlink GSM 139 Bintel3 Hormuud
TelecomGSM 133 Hormuud Telecom
Somalia Inc4 Telsom Mobile GSM 125 Telsom Mobile Somalia5 Golis Telecom
SomaliaGSM n/a Golis Telecom Somalia
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SOMAFONE&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Somafone_FZ_LLC&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationLink_Telecomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bintel&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuud_Telecomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuud_Telecomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hormuud_Telecom_Somalia_Inc&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hormuud_Telecom_Somalia_Inc&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telsom_Mobile&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telsom_Mobile_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SOMAFONE&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Somafone_FZ_LLC&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationLink_Telecomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bintel&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuud_Telecomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormuud_Telecomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hormuud_Telecom_Somalia_Inc&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hormuud_Telecom_Somalia_Inc&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telsom_Mobile&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telsom_Mobile_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators_of_the_Middle_East_and_Africa#Somalia -
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There is no national telecommunications operator in Somalia at the
moment. In the ensuing political turbulence, that infrastructure was
destroyed, along with its Public Switch Transmission Network. This left
Somalis without the means to connect to the large expatriate community
of friends and relatives outside the country.
In time, VSAT was installed by private operators and the services of
international companies such as AT&T and Telia were employed to provide
transit facilities for incoming and outgoing calls. Satellite services aremainly provided through Kenya to connect Somalia to the world. It was
quite useful in achieving quite competitive costs for international outgoing
traffic (USD 0.3-0.7 depending on destination). However, incoming
international calls as quite high (more than USD 1.2 per minute).
Infrastructure had to be built from scratch but the situation has developed
quickly off a low base. In 2010, there were an estimated 1.1 fixed lines per100 people and 7 mobile subscriptions per 100 people4. Due to lack of
interconnection framework, mobile subscribers are not capable of calling
one another across different service providers. Users have to have a
mobile line from each operator in order to be able to call subscribers on
the same network5.
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In Somalia, the telecom companies haven't competed only for customers.
They have also cooperated with each other to maintain their networks and
set prices to ensure that competition doesn't become too fierce.
Regulatory Trends and Evolution
Regulation doesnt exist in Somalia. Yet its air wave is crowded withseveral mobile networks. And there is no interconnection between all
operators. The Somali government has planned to regulate its mobile
phone market to stimulate the growth of the market and finance roll out of
services in rural areas.6
In 1998, the Somali Telecommunications Association (STA) was formed as
a means for self-regulation, collaboration, in-house training and technical
assistance in the absence of a government. The STA, comprised of
concerned telecommunication companies, has been largely responsible for
improving key issues such as standards, interconnection and coordination.
This was an ITU sponsored initiative but did not deliver the expected
outcomes. In fact, this has contributed to the further fragmentation and
confusion in the Somali telcom sector The ITU helped this initiati e to
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2. REGULATION FRAMEWORKS, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Up till now there is no National regulatory authority in Somalia, or
regulations. This has lead to an increase in the number of mobile
operators as there is no need for licensing and the market is widely open.
Other countries have to deal with massive obligations to legacy investors,
employee pensions and legal and political issues. While quality voice calls
are important customers in sophisticated economies now demand
broadband and other advanced services that Somalia and the like cannot
provide. Another positive outcome of this situation is that Somalia has
some of the lowest domestic and international rates in all of Africaan
international call costs just USD .30/min. as there are no taxes to be paid
by the operators.
In addition, Somalias telecom sector enjoys a speedy three days for
installation of a landline, compared with waiting many years in
neighboring Kenya. Nevertheless, the absence of regulator and a legal
framework has created ambiguity in the investment environment and has
resulted in incomplete interconnectivity agreements. The government
currently is perusing establishing regulations for the telecom sector in
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its contents are internationally-geared with little relevance to local issues,
thereby sacrificing immense readership. When national events occur,
Somali websites exceedingly outpace traditional media in breaking news,
sometimes with video clips. Leaders of the Transitional Federal
Government (TFG) routinely rely on websites for complete coverage when
visiting international destinations. More importantly, websites report from
remote parts of Somalia, often with digital images- another area where
traditional media, for all its constraints, underperformed. Reciprocating
such images for extended period of times, stirred a virtual communityand an unforeseen national solidarity.
Online business within the Somali community is also at advanced stage, as
all the Somali remittance services use online service to receive and send
money from around the world to Somalia.
New Regulatory challenges
The biggest regulatory challenge Somalias telecom sector is facing is
having no regulation at all for such a long time.along with no regulator.
Although this comes with the privilege of free entry to the market and low
prices to consumers promoting a highly competitive environment, yet
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3. BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION
Somalia was one of the last African countries to get connected to the
Internet after the country established its first ISP in 1999. But today the
country has internet connectivity to almost 53% of the whole area of the
country and the Internet business is mushrooming in the country and
becoming one of the fastest growing services along with telephony.
Dial up internet services in Somalia is the fastest growing internet services
in Africa as Somalia enjoys landline growth of more than 12.5% per year
compared to Horn and eastern Africa countries where landline is
experiencing a serious decline due vandalism and increase cost of copper
cables in the international market. This growth is attributed to the unique
services policy adopted by the Somali telcom operators that is based onfree local calls within each town of in the country. Landline has become
the product of choice and most affordable telecommunication service in
the local market. By just paying a flat rate of US$ 10 per month for
unlimited calls and US0.005 per minute for Internet connections, with one
time connection fee of US$50.
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The biggest challenge for Internet services in Somalia is the cost of
bandwidth as most of the customers are currently paying between US$
2500-3000 per Mbs per month.
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4. SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSAL ACCESS AND
INTEGRATED SERVICES
The government has drafted rules for spectrum management, numbering
plan and interconnection. The Finance Ministry is also formulating details
of the taxes, although a timeline for the passing of the necessary laws
remains unclear.
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5. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND REGULATORY CAPACITY NEEDS
After complete destruction of the government controlled
telecommunications infrastructure, the private sector took the risk and
began a nascent telecoms sector to respond to the needs of the Somali
people.
The result is that today Somali companies have invested in GSM cellular
telephony and satellite networks, and provide the lowest international
calling rates in the African continent. It is estimated that within Somalia,
the private sector have invested more than US$ 390 million in the Somali
telecommunication sector over the last ten years.
Somalia has the opportunity to leap-frog over several generations ofintermediate technologies. Recent market entrants to Somalia in fibre-
optic cables and the positioning of underwater fibre-optic cables along the
coast of Somalia reflect this potential.
In order to reach its full and profitable potential, the sector needs are as
below:-
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2. http://www.mipt.gov.so/
3. http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/18/somali-government-to-regulate
4. http://www.unescap.org/idd/events/2009_sRW-MDG-WSIS-SEAsia%20and
%20Pacific/2010-04-20_UN_ESCAP_Telecom_Seminar_Report.pdf
5. http://www.hiiraan.com/news/2006/apr/somali_websites.aspx
6. http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Somalia-Telecom-Rev-Afri-
Pol-Econ.pdf
7. http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-no-345/top-
story/somalia-s-civil-war/en
8. http://somalitalk.com/2010/may/istambul/telecom.pdf
9. http://www.somaliawatch.org/archivedec01/020111101.htm
10.http://www.uneca.org/aisi/NICI/country_profiles/Somalia/sompol.htm
11.http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.428.html
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Series Code Series Name 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
I4214 International Internet bandwidth(Mbit/s)
3 .. .. .. .. ..
I81 Annual investment in telecomservices
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I81$ Annual investment in telecomservices (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I652 Average annual exchange rate perUS$
15,484 14,406 .. .. 33,000 ..
I4213CAB Cable modem Internetsubscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I271MD Dedicated mobile datasubscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I911MD Dedicated mobile datasubscriptions per 100 inhabitants
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213D Dial-up Internet subscriptions .. .. .. .. .. ..
I965S Direct-to-Home (DTH) satelliteantenna subscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I131M Domestic fixed-to-fixed telephone
traffic (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I133WM Domestic mobile telephone traffic(minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213DSL DSL Internet subscriptions .. .. .. .. .. ..
I143 Faults per 100 fixed telephone linesper year
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213FTTH/B Fibre-to-the-home/building Internetsubscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213TFB Fixed (wired) broadband Internetsubscriptions
0 0 0 0 .. ..
I992 Fixed (wired) broadband Internetsubscriptions per 100 inhabitants
0 0 0 0 .. ..
I4213BS_CPFixed (wired) broadband price ofexcess usage (per additional GB) .. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213 Fixed (wired) Internet subscriptions .. .. .. .. .. ..
I993 Fixed (wired) Internet subscriptionsper 100 inhabitants
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213BC Fixed broadband Internetconnection charge
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213BC$ Fixed broadband Internet .. .. .. .. .. ..
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connection charge (US$)
I4213BS_C Fixed broadband Internet monthlycap
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213BS Fixed broadband Internet monthlysubscription
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213BS$ Fixed broadband Internet monthlysubscription (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213BS_S Fixed broadband Internet speed(Mbit/s)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I112 Fixed telephone lines 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
I91 Fixed telephone lines per 100inhabitants
1.20 1.17 1.15 1.12 1.10 1.07
I83 Fixed telephone service investment .. .. .. .. .. ..
I83$ Fixed telephone service investment(US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1313WM Fixed-to-mobile telephone traffic(minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I841F Foreign investment .. .. .. .. .. ..I51F Full-time telecommunication
employees: Female
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I51W Full-time telecommunicationemployees: Mobile
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I51 Full-time telecommunicationemployees: Total
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I62 Households 1,356,000 1,393,000 1,426,000 1,468,000 1,502,000 1,539,000
I151B Installation fee for businesstelephone service
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I151B$ Installation fee for businesstelephone service (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I151 Installation fee for residentialtelephone service
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I151$ Installation fee for residentialtelephone service (US$) .. .. .. .. .. ..
I132MI International incoming fixedtelephone traffic (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I132TI International incoming totaltelephone traffic (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1335WM International incoming traffic tomobile network (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
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I994U International Internet bandwidth perInternet user
33.31 .. .. .. .. ..
I132M International outgoing fixedtelephone traffic (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I132T International outgoing totaltelephone traffic (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1191 International telephone circuits .. .. .. .. .. ..
I28 ISDN subscriptions 400 .. .. .. .. ..I281 ISDN subscriptions: Basic rate .. .. .. .. .. ..
I282 ISDN subscriptions: Primary rate .. .. .. .. .. ..I28C ISDN voice channel equivalents 800 .. .. .. .. ..
I4213L Leased line subscriptions .. .. .. .. .. ..
I1311M Local fixed telephone traffic(minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I133MMS MMS sent .. .. .. .. .. ..
I153CO Mobile cellular - price of 3 minutelocal call (off-peak)
318.2 .. .. .. .. ..
I153CO$ Mobile cellular - price of 3 minutelocal call (off-peak) (US$)
0.021 .. .. .. .. ..
I153C Mobile cellular - price of 3 minutelocal call (peak)
636.4 .. .. .. .. ..
I153C$ Mobile cellular - price of 3 minutelocal call (peak) (US$)
0.041 .. .. .. .. ..
I152C Mobile cellular monthly subscriptioncharge
.. .. 0 .. .. ..
I152C$ Mobile cellular monthly subscriptioncharge (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I151C Mobile cellular postpaid connectioncharge
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I151C$ Mobile cellular postpaid connectioncharge (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153POO Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (off-peak, off-net)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153POO$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (off-peak, off-net) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PON Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (off-peak, on-
.. .. .. .. .. ..
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net)
I153PON$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (off-peak, on-net) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153POF Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (off-peak, tofixed)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153POF$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (off-peak, tofixed) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PO Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (peak, off-net)
.. 1680.7 .. .. .. ..
I153PO$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (peak, off-net)(US$)
.. 0.12 .. .. .. ..
I153PN Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (peak, on-net)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PN$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (peak, on-net)(US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PF Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (peak, to fixed)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PF$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute (peak, to fixed)(US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PWO Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute(weekend/evening, off-net)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PWO$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute(weekend/evening, off-net) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PWN Mobile cellular prepaid price of
local call per minute(weekend/evening, on-net)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PWN$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute(weekend/evening, on-net) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PWF Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute(weekend/evening, to fixed)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
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I153PWF$ Mobile cellular prepaid price oflocal call per minute(weekend/evening, to fixed) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153SMS_PO Mobile cellular prepaid price ofSMS (off-net)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153SMS_PO$ Mobile cellular prepaid price ofSMS (off-net) (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153PSMS Mobile cellular prepaid price ofSMS (on-net)
.. 288.12 .. .. .. ..
I153PSMS$ Mobile cellular prepaid price ofSMS (on-net) (US$)
.. 0.02 .. .. .. ..
I151P Mobile cellular prepaid connectioncharge
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I151P$ Mobile cellular prepaid connectioncharge (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I2712 Mobile cellular subscriptions: Digital .. .. .. .. .. ..
I271 Mobile cellular telephonesubscriptions
500,000 550,000 600,000 627,000 641,000 648,200
I911 Mobile cellular telephone
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
5.98 6.43 6.87 7.03 7.03 6.95
I841M Mobile communication investment .. .. .. .. .. ..I841M$ Mobile communication investment
(US$).. .. .. .. .. ..
I152B Monthly subscription for businesstelephone service
31,820 .. .. .. .. ..
I152B$ Monthly subscription for businesstelephone service (US$)
2.06 .. .. .. .. ..
I152 Monthly subscription for residentialtelephone service
31,820 .. .. .. .. ..
I152$ Monthly subscription for residentialtelephone service (US$)
2.055 .. .. .. .. ..
I965M Multi-channel TV subscriptions .. .. .. .. .. ..
I1312M Long distance fixed to fixedtelephone traffic (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I4213OB Other fixed (wired) broadbandInternet subscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1332WMF Outgoing mobile traffic to fixednetworks (minutes)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1333WM Outgoing mobile traffic to .. .. .. .. .. ..
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international (minutes)
I141 Percentage of fixed telephone faultscleared by next working day
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1142 Percentage of fixed telephone linesconnected to digital exchanges
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I1162 Percentage of fixed telephone linesin urban areas
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I116 Percentage of fixed telephone lineswhich are residential
.. .. .. .. .. ..
XHH4_IDI Percentage of households with acomputer
.. .. .. .. .. ..
XHH3F Percentage of households with afixed line telephone
.. .. .. .. .. ..
XHH3M Percentage of households with amobile cellular telephone
.. .. .. .. .. ..
XHH1 Percentage of households with aradio
.. .. .. .. .. ..
XHH2 Percentage of households with aTV
.. .. .. .. .. ..
XHHR1 Percentage of households withelectricity .. .. .. .. .. ..
XHH6_IDI Percentage of households withInternet access at home
.. .. .. .. .. ..
YHH5 Percentage of individuals using acomputer
.. .. .. .. .. ..
YHH10 Percentage of individuals using amobile cellular telephone
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I99H Percentage of individuals using theInternet
1.08 1.10 1.12 1.14 1.16 ..
I1163% Percentage of localities withtelephone service
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I271POP Percentage of the populationcovered by a mobile cellularnetwork
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I271G Percentage of the populationcovered by at least a 3G mobilenetwork
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I6111 Percentage of the population inurban areas
35.2 35.64 36.08 36.52 36.96 ..
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I61 Population 8,359,859 8,547,497 8,733,493 8,922,260 9,119,848 9,330,872
I271P Prepaid mobile cellular telephonesubscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I153O Price of a 3-minute fixed telephonelocal call (off-peak rate)
1591 .. .. .. .. ..
I153O$ Price of a 3-minute fixed telephonelocal call (off-peak rate) (US$)
0.10 .. .. .. .. ..
I153 Price of a 3-minute fixed telephonelocal call (peak rate)
1591 .. .. .. .. ..
I153$ Price of a 3-minute fixed telephonelocal call (peak rate) (US$)
0.10 .. .. .. .. ..
I1112 Public payphones .. .. .. .. .. ..I98 Public payphones per 1000
inhabitants.. .. .. .. .. ..
I75 Revenue from alltelecommunication services
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I75$ Revenue from alltelecommunication services (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I71 Revenue from fixed telephone
services
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I71$ Revenue from fixed telephoneservices (US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I741 Revenue from mobile networks .. .. .. .. .. ..
I741$ Revenue from mobile networks(US$)
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I133SMS SMS sent .. .. .. .. .. ..I271MB_USE Standard mobile subscriptions with
use of data communications atbroadband speeds
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I911MB_ACTIVE Standard mobile subscriptions withuse of data communications atbroadband speeds per 100inhabitants
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I271MW Terrestrial mobile wirelesssubscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I911MW Terrestrial mobile wirelesssubscriptions per 100 inhabitants
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I965C Terrestrial multi-channel TVsubscriptions
.. .. .. .. .. ..
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I117 Total capacity of local publicswitching exchanges
.. .. .. .. .. ..
I123 Waiting list for fixed telephone lines .. .. .. .. .. ..
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Somali Operators
Company Name URL Services Notes
fixed mobile Internet Money
Transfer
VoIP
DALKOM Telecom carrier &
Capacity provider Somalia
http://www.dalkomsomalia.com/compan
y-info.html
Golis Telecom Somalia http://www.golistelecom.com/
Somali Telecom Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Telecom_Group
Dalkom http://www.dalkomsomalia.com/
Hormuud http://www.hortel.net/home.php
Telcom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcom
OnkoTel http://www.onkotel.com/
NationLink Telecom http://www.nationlinktelecom.com/
Netco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netco_(Somalia)
Somafone http://www.somafone.com/index.htm
Telesom Company http://www.telesom.net/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DALKOM_Telecom_carrier_%26_Capacity_provider_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DALKOM_Telecom_carrier_%26_Capacity_provider_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.dalkomsomalia.com/company-info.htmlhttp://www.dalkomsomalia.com/company-info.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://www.golistelecom.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Telecom_Grouphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Telecom_Grouphttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galkom&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galkom&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galkom&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galkom&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.dalkomsomalia.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hormuud&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.hortel.net/home.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OnkoTel&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OnkoTel&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.onkotel.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationLink_Telecomhttp://www.nationlinktelecom.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netco_(Somalia)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netco_(Somalia)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somafonehttp://www.somafone.com/index.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesom_Company&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.telesom.net/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DALKOM_Telecom_carrier_%26_Capacity_provider_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DALKOM_Telecom_carrier_%26_Capacity_provider_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.dalkomsomalia.com/company-info.htmlhttp://www.dalkomsomalia.com/company-info.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golis_Telecom_Somaliahttp://www.golistelecom.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Telecom_Grouphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Telecom_Grouphttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galkom&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.dalkomsomalia.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hormuud&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.hortel.net/home.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telcomhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OnkoTel&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.onkotel.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationLink_Telecomhttp://www.nationlinktelecom.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netco_(Somalia)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netco_(Somalia)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somafonehttp://www.somafone.com/index.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telesom_Company&action=edit&redlink=1http://www.telesom.net/ -
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And this is what we told them. And therefore the official list.
The following are the properly certified operators so far in Somalia that are members of the GSMA according to your public records:
1. Golis Telecommunications Company LtdGolis - GSM 900 SOMALIA2. Hormuud Telecom Somalia Inc Hormuud Telecom Somalia - GSM 900 SOMALIA3. Nationlink Nationlink - GSM 900 - SOMALIA, Nationlink - GSM 900 SOMALIA4. Somafone FZLLC SOMAFONE - GSM 900/1800 Somalia5. SOMTEL - GSM 900/1800 SOMALIA6. Telcom MobileTelcom Mobile - GSM 900 SOMALIA7. Telesom CompanyTelesom - GSM 900 - SOMALIA
Section 74 of the Somali Telecommunications Law, 2007 states that no person shall operate a telecommunications network or provide telecommunication services except in
accordance with a license issued by the Authority in accordance with this Law. Pursuant to this law, the Ministry is working to prohibit further operation by several GSMwireless operators in outside the national territory which continue to operate without such a valid Ministry license.
Please use the above information if you feel it is relevant and useful to the paper.
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