Vodacom Gets 40% of Mozambique’s Mobile Phone Market
February 20, 2008
South African-based mobile phone company, Vodacom-Mozambique (VM) has announced a 40 percent share in Mozambique’s mobile phone market, five years after entering the market.
The chairman of Mozambique’s second cell phone operator, Hermenegildo Gamito, said that by January 2008, VM had reached 1.5 million clients, which is over 40 percent of the estimated 3.3 million cell phone users in the country.
“We now have a market share of 40 percent in Mozambique, that is 3.3 million, and is only 16 percent of the Mozambican population from which we may readily conclude that the penetration of mobile telephony in Mozambique is still regarded as rather weak”, he said at a business lunch with Mozambican journalists in Maputo, the country’s capital.
“VM is working with government bodies to improve the business environment for mobile telephony, with the aim of allowing greater access to existing services”, Gamito added.
Vodacom, a subsidiary of the South African Vodacom Group, was awarded a mobile network license in 2002 to become the second cellular operator in the country after paying U$$15 million for the license to compete with mCel, which is owned by the Mozambican government and a German company Detecon.
Source African Press Agency
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