Zamtel to receive fibre pairs of Zesco by Zambian govt

On 02.08.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a move to make Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel) more attractive to potential buyers, Zambian government might offer a number of fibre pairs to the operator which are currently controlled by state-owned power company Zesco. Seven of twelve fibre pairs that Zesco has will be transferred.

Of the remaining five, two are used by Zesco to manage its power network; one is used by South Africa-based MTN, which owns a mobile operator in Zambia, while the last two are not currently in use.

Currently, Huawei is in the process of rolling out a fibre backbone for Zamtel, but it remains incomplete and by comparison to Zesco’s existing infrastructure is significantly less expansive.

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Altimo of Russia joins bidding in Zamtel privatization

On 01.05.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to a research agency, the fourth bid from Russia’s Altimo has been accepted for controlling a stake in phone company Zambia Telecommunications Co.

The bid was submitted five minutes after the deadline which was December 23. Therefore it was not added to offers from Libya’s LAP Greencom Ltd together with LAP Green Networks, Angola’s Unitel Corp. and India’s state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd that day.

The short-listed bidders have been called for conducting further due diligence on Zamtel. They will be asked to submit a binding bid for a majority equity stake. The details of the next phase of privatization and of the indicative bids will be revealed on January 11.

In September, ZDA had announced that it was selling Zamtel, which also owns mobile-phone operator Cell-Z and Internet service provider Zamtel Online.

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Zambian government under pressure to release Zamtel valuation report

On 12.28.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Zambia’s civil society organizations have pressurized the Government to release the valuation report it commissioned to sell its majority stakes in a fixed line incumbent Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel).

According to Fackson Shamenda, former Zambia Congress of Trade Union president, there has not been much transparency in the sale of Zamtel and with the release of the information the potential concerns over the sales will be cleared.

Earlier this year the government had appointed RP Capital to evaluate the telco’s assets, after deciding to sell 75% stake in Zamtel. However they never released the report. This led to complaints saying that there has been no transparency in the process.

According to The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA), eight companies including Portugal Telecom, Orascom Telecom and Vimpelcom have pre-qualified for the stake sale, and those firms are due to complete due diligence today, with bids due by midday. The ZDA will release the identity of those companies that have submitted bids for the stake and after reviewing the bids announce the shortlisted candidates on January11.

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Telcos of India, Libya & Angola bid for Zamtel

On 12.24.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Three companies from India, Libya and Angola, have submitted their bids for state-run Zambia Telecommunications Co. also known as Zamtel in its partial privatization.

The bidding period ended with the submission of these three offers in Zamtel, informed the acting director general of the Zambia Development Agency, Muhabi Lungu.

According to Lungu, LAP Green of Libya, Unitel of Angola and Bharat Sanchar Nigam of India have submitted their offers to buy up to a 75% stake in the company.

In October the list of suitors had came down to eight from the 30 firms who had earlier shown interest. Criticizing the sale, the opposition party said that Zambia should retain a larger stake in the company. The shortlisted candidates will be announced by January11.

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Vodafone subscribers can now Find & Go (UK)

On 07.22.08, In Mobile, By Editor

Vodafone UK and Telmap, have teamed up with Multimap, the UK’s specialist online mapping service, to introduce Find & Go. The launch of Find & Go conveniently converges PC location based services with the mobile phone.

Vodafone subscribers can for the first time search for a destination on their PCs on the Multimap website and send the search result to their mobile phone free of charge. Then they can obtain driving directions from Multimap’s Driving Direction Service or receive directions for turn-by-turn pedestrian or driving navigation using the Find & Go service.

Multimap’s Driving Directions Service is available exclusively on Vodafone live! for the next three months.

Through mobile network positioning Vodafone’s Find & Go makes it much faster for customers with GPS embedded handsets to identify their current location and search for places or landmarks immediately, without the need to wait for their phone to pick up the satellite signal.

This means searching for locations is now possible even when a customer is indoors or out of the GPS signal range.

   

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