Somtel (, ) is a

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headquartered in

Hargeisa Hargeisa ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland, a ''List of states with limited recognition, de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still considered internationally to be part of Somalia. It is also th ...

Somaliland Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, E ...

Regions

Somtel provides services in both

and

Somalia Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...

Background

Somtel provides mobile voice and data services to customers, including Mobile Money Service. It is a 3G and 4G services provider in Somalia's network. Somtel is largely owned by Dahabshiil but is officially registered in the

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Services

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* 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

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

and 4G LTE networks. 3G 2100, 2G 1800, 900 and LTE 800

MHz The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base u ...

20 FDD.

References

External links

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