Saturday, January 4, 2014

SOMALIA: Government to unite country’s private telecom network providers

The acting minister of the Ministry of Information, Posts and Telecommunication of Somalia Abdullahi Elmoge Hersi .

Mogadishu (tf.sf) The Ministry of Information, Posts and Telecommunications of the Federal Government of Somalia has on Friday announced its new plan to re-unite the country’s private telecommunication network providers amid the new telecom regulations, terror free somalia.
The minister Abdullahi Elmoge Hersi who is now the acting minister has said that the ministry has done alot in terms of regulating the media in the past year but that challenges remain in the telecommunications sector.
“The private telecommunication companies have increased as the need to unite their networks became inevitable.” the minister said in a press release on the ministry’s achievement in the past year  on Friday.
“The challenges remain the telecommunication is now very big, you can see one individual holding more than three Simcards in one’s cellphone which our people are always suffering.” he added.
In Somalia the private telecommunication companies have been enjoying in a lawless environment which made the industry a very booming as lack of internal regulations and lack of cooperation between them forced the people to use more than three networks in one’s own cellphone to get access to communicating with others.
On the other hand the acting minister has hailed the ministry’s role on the new draft media bill which the journalists and the media stakeholders have been continuously discussing in the past year as he anticipated that the draft bill will soon become a law.

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