Telecel confirms USD40 million network expansion programme (Zimbabwe)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telecel has reportedly confirmed that it is going ahead with a USD40 million network expansion programme. The operator intends to gain around one million subscribers by year-end, up from its current total of 350,000.

The report said that funding for the project was coming directly from Orascom, which has dispatched technicians to Harare to work on the first phase of the network project which is expected to be completed by September, in partnership with equipment providers Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei Technologies. The smallest telco of the country, which is 49% owned by local investors, has also specified that it is not prepared to sell part of the company to a foreign investor, denying recent reports that MTN of South Africa could be lining up a takeover bid.