TELECOMS SECTOR REPORT TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN TANZANIA 2016-2017
Tanzania telecoms
sector report telecommunications in tanzania include fixed and mobile voice
services, Internet, television, and radio.
Executive
Summary The telecom sector in Tanzania contributed 2.1% to the country’s GDP in
2014, with USD1b, compared to USD513m in 2009 (+100%).
Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
attributes the growth rate to an increase in airtime used by mobile phone
customers and the expansion of broadcasting and internet services.
In the past
5 years, mobile subscriptions rose by 89%, from 21m in 2010 to almost 40m in
2015 while landline subscriptions decreased by 22%, from 174,511 in 2010 to
142,819, with a teledensity of 79%.
Internet services’ users in Tanzania reached
17.3m in 2015, compared to only 5.3m in 2011. Table of Contents Tanzania
Telecoms History Tanzania Converged Licensing Framework (CLF) Tanzania Telecoms
Performances Tanzania Voice Subscriptions Tanzania Mobile Voice Subscriptions
Tanzania Landline Voice Subscriptions Tanzania Internet Services Tanzania Fibre
Optic Cable Network Tanzania Mobile Internet Network: 4G/3G/2G Services
Tanzania Telecom Inclusion Tanzania Mobile Sector Taxation TV Broadcasting
Services in Tanzania Radio Broadcasting Services in Tanzania Tanzania Telecoms
Outlook Tanzania Telecoms History Before 1993, the Tanzania Posts and
Telecommunications Corporation (TPTC) held a monopoly in the provision of
communications and was responsible for the regulation of this sector.
In 1993, the Communications Act was enacted as
part of the government’s move to liberalize the communications sector in the
country. Since then, the TPTC was split into 3 different entities: the Tanzania
Posts Corporation (TPC), the Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL)
and the Tanzania Communication Commission (TCC).
Additionally, the Tanzania
Broadcasting Commission (TBC) was established with Tanzania’s Broadcasting Act
of 1993.
The main
functions of TBC were: issuing broadcasting licenses, regulating and
supervising broadcasting activities and maintaining a register of all
broadcasters.
To foster
convergence of technology and services, TCC and TBC were merged in 2003, to
form the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA).
TCRA
regulates telecommunications, broadcasting and postal matters in Tanzania,
promotes effective competition and economic efficiency, protects the interests
of consumers, regulates rates and tariffs, and monitors the performance of the
sector.
TCRA
approved in 2005 a new Converged Licensing Framework (CLF), a pioneering move
in the African continent, which allows operators to offer any type of services
with the technology of their choice with one single license.
Today, the Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) sector in Tanzania is completely liberalized and
competition has grown in mobile cellular services, internet and data
communications services.
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