Senegal awards 4th mobile license to Globalcom

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobile operator’s license in Senegal has been issued to Nigeria-based Globalcom (Glo Mobile) and it is the fourth to be awarded in the West African country. The concession will allow Globacom to land its Glo 1 trans-Atlantic submarine cable in Senegal, with opportunities to extend the infrastructure to Mali.

According to Nigerian firm’s chairman Mike Adenuga Jr, the license would enable the telco to offer ‘world class telecommunications services’ to the government and people of Senegal. It will continue to play a major role in stimulating a new era of prosperity in the sub-continent and build facilities that will offer Africa advanced telecoms services such as teleconferencing, distance learning, disaster recovery, telemedicine, on-line diagnosis and video conferencing during surgery and research.

The operator holds working license in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic and Cote d’Ivoire but has threatened to exit the Ghanaian market citing sabotage as the reason.