France Telecom increases stake in Orange Botswana
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Stake of France Telecom in Orange Botswana has been increased by the company to 69%. The deal has also seen a consortium of local investors sell around a 20% stake in the cellco to the French telecoms group.
According to Satar Dada, one of the investors in Mosokelatsebeng Cellular, a consortium of Batswana investors, the company offloaded 20% of the company’s share and now it is left with 26% in Orange and the transaction was effected in December 2009, although he did not disclose the value of the deal.
The aim of the deal is also at pre-empting a takeover offer from an unnamed South African mobile operator seeking to enter the market in Botswana. Orange Botswana launched mobile services as Vista Cellular in June 1998 and rebranded under the Orange banner in March 2003.
Orange Botswana selects Alvarion(R) for WiMAX(TM) Turnkey Project
Alvarion Ltd., the world’s leading provider of WiMAX(TM) and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that it was chosen by Orange Botswana for a turnkey WiMAX(TM) deployment, using Alvarion’s WiMAX Forum Certified(TM) 4Motion end-to-end solution. The commercial network built at the 2.5 GHz frequency band enables Orange Botswana to provide advanced data services to businesses and homes in Gaborone and Francistown, Botswana’s two largest cities with a total population of over 330,000. (more…)
