Sierra Leone, Chad, Congo, Ghana, Tanzania and
Senegal are the six African countries expected to enjoy from Millicom
International Cellular Company's (MICC) investment initiative in some
West African countries.
According to
Investor's Business Daily, MICC will spend at least one billion dollars
in 2008 in Africa to improve mobile phones services.
Mr Marc Beuls said in a statement to the media
that he was optimistic about the initiative to improve mobile services
in all the 16 countries in which they are investing.
He said the countries in which they have operations have strong GDP indicators and have steady economic growth.
Information,
communication and Technology(ICT) specialists, HANA spoke with are of
the opinion that many developing countries like Sierra Leone, having
wireless phone services available in many parts of the country is a key
part of modernising economies.
The MICC boss
also said that by building a wireless network, the MICC was helping in
the creation of economic infrastructure, enables people to communicate,
and also helps in the creation of growth in developing markets.
A
senior IT analyst pointed out that MICC's strategy to charge users per
second than per minute is a prudent way to make telecommunication less
expensive and affordable.
Mr Abu Sankoh,
Millicom?s local agent in Sierra Leone told HANA that the company was
doing extremely well for its subscribers by giving them quality
services.
The MICC Chief Executive said the
African continent is very much in favour of this venture of spending
much on the cellular network especially this year He said a lot of new
comers are coming into the market but he said some companies under
estimate what it means to operate mobile businesses.
He concluded by saying that one of the challenges of emerging mobile
companies is that the bigger ones are now eyeing small developing
countries where wireless usage is still low.
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