Halotel Tanzania has officially launched its mobile money transfer service “Halopesa” in the country a move likely to stiffen competition among mobile phone operators in the country.
Declared as the fastest telecom company in growth rates of subscribers by Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) report of 1st and 2nd quarter of this year, the company has announced plans to increase the number of subscribers to 7 Million until the end of 2017, and 3 million subscribers using Halopesa service until the end of 2017.
“By using Halopesa, subscribers will be able to Cash in and out, receive money to and from Bank Account, Payment utility bills for example LUKU, DAWASCO, and TV subscription-ZUKU, GEPF, TCU and POLICE; buy Halotel airtime,” Halotel Managing Director, Do Manh Hung said during the launch of the service.
He encouraged subscribers to use Halopesa adding that is the largest network and fastest speed transaction of up to 95 percent of Tanzania population both in town and villages. “It is possible to transfer up to Tsh 3 million once everywhere in Tanzania” he clarified.
Sharing strategic objectives in the near future during Mr. Hung emphasized that his company will invest more for network expansion to cover the 95 percent of the Tanzanian Population country wide until the end of this year and to provide 4G service in 2017.
Halotel will also deploy the fiber optic everywhere in the country and make Tanzania among top in Africa in using the network with fiber optic infrastructure. And according to fiber optic cable, Information technology will be popular in all areas of social life and support to build the Electronic System for Tanzania Government”, he said.
He said, currently, Halotel has provided the best IT Solution service to the biggest companies namely CRDB, NMB, BOA, FINCA, EXIM, SNV-Southern Netherlands and Development Organization.
According to Mr Hung, the company decided to introduce different packages that include; Halo Packages, Students Package, CUG which covers the Government staffs, soldiers, police and teachers who are given free 15 minutes every day for communication for one year.
“Our aim is to make sure that, we compete with others in the industry. To prove this, our services have been very well received in the market and we feel proud off of being one of the best telecommunication company in Tanzania”.
“We have dedicated our resources to improve our infrastructures. For example, up to now, we have built more than 20,000 kilometres of optic fibber and more than 4,200 of Base Transceiver Stations (BTS’s), we have brought the broadband mobile service to 3,000 villages which had not been connected before”.
“That is the first step in the process popularizing telecommunications in Tanzania. We also planning to deploy a lot of BTS in 1,000 villages that did not have telecommunication service before. At the end of the day, our aim is to go the extra miles by making our services better and affordable,” he said.
On Top of that, Halotel has paid huge amount to the government Total Tax amount more than 94 billion TSH, approximately 43 Million US Dollar since 2015.
Like all others investors, Halotel is contributing to the development by supporting community. To date the company has created 25,000 indirect jobs and 1,300 direct jobs to Tanzanians, implementation of social programs; including Free Internet to 450 schools within 3 years. In Katavi and Pwani constructed the internet rooms and provided them with full modern equipment’s.
Halotel also committed to help the local authority to do the management work effectively, connected optic cable internet to local authorities (150 committee offices, 150 Hospitals, 150 Police stations, 65 post offices at district level.
Recently, Halotel has donated Tsh 15,000,000 to support the victims in Kagera Earthquake.
Halotel always consider that business development goes with social responsibilities and contribute to promoting good traditional relationship between two country Tanzania and Vietnam
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