Tigo Holds Media Forum to Outline the Future of Telecom in Tanzania

Tanzania’s leading digital lifestyle company, Tigo, held a media forum with journalists from reputable media outlets to connect and unveil it’s future plans aimed at fueling telecommunications industry in Tanzania after a consortium led by Axian Telecom and prominent Tanzania businessman Mr. Rostam Azizi acquired the merged entity MIC Tanzania PLC (Tigo and Zantel).

The meeting outlined the Axian Telecom consortium’s ambitious growth plans to support the digital transformation of Tanzania by investmenting significantly in the country over the next five years to strengthen the network coverage and quality of service of the merged entity MIC Tanzania plc.

The MIC Tanzania PLC Chairman,Rostam Azizi said, “We are excited to meet with the media fraternity to outline our future plans for over 14 milion customers across the country. Following decades of experience in this sector,  I’m committed to providing valuable strategic guidance and stewardship to Tigo in order to extend access to affordable mobile services and drive digital inclusion across rural Tanzania through significant investment in our telecom infrastructure”.

“Our investment into the merged entity (Tigo and Zantel) will help us fulfill our ambition to be an end-to-end partner in Africa’s digital transformation journey and further accelerate financial inclusion, capitalizing on the success of the merged entity’s mobile financial services to develop bespoke services that meet our customer’s needs.”

Hassanein Hiridjee, Founder and Chairman of the Board, AXIAN Telecom

Leveraging on its expertise notably in deploying state of the art technologies and developing successful mobile financial services, AXIAN Telecom and Mr. Rostam Aziz ambitions to energize the telecommunications ecosystem in Tanzania with a focus on ensuring a better experience for the customers as well as  employees. Plans are underway for the merged entity teams to move into the tallest building in East and Central Africa, PSSSF Commercial Complex located in the commercial city, Dar es Salaam.This move will help the company to develop and nurture talent in the more advanced working environment.