Somtel ( so, Somtel, ar, سومتيل) is a

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headquartered in

Hargeisa Hargeisa (; so, Hargeysa, ar, هرجيسا) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland. It is located in the Maroodi Jeex region of the Horn of Africa. It succeeded Burco as the capital of the British Somaliland Protectora ...

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Regions

Somtel provides services in all over

Background

One of Somaliland's leading telecommunications firms, it provides a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to customers, including Mobile Money Service and is a 3G and 4G services provider in Somaliland's

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. Somtel is largely owned by Dahabshiil, but is officially registered in the

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Services

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service * Cloud * Mobile Wallet

Partnerships

O3b

In November 2013, O3b Networks, Ltd. announced an agreement to provide high-speed, low-latency capacity to Somtel. The pact is expected to improve the firm's networks and reliability.

Google

Since 2012, Somtel has partnered with

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services.

Frequency Band

Somtel operates on

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and

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networks. 3G 2100, 2G 1800, 900 and LTE 800

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20 FDD.

References

External links

Somtel
{{Portal, Somaliland Telecommunications companies established in 2009 Telecommunications companies of Somaliland

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...