The IT, media and telecommunications of the United Republic of
Tanzania
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- Detecon, MSI Acquire 35 Percent Stake In
Tanzania Telecom
- Panafrican News Agency, 28 June 2000. The Germany-based
telecommunications conglomerate, Detecon, and MSI of the
Netherlands Wednesday acquired 35 percent of the share
capital of the hitherto publically-owned Tanzania
Telecommunications Company.
- Tanzania Joins the World of Digital
Television
- TOMRIC News Agency (Dar es Salaam), 7 August
2000. Tanzania has joined the World Digital Satellite
Television service to take advantage of recent technological
developments that will enable the country to send satellite
signals to other African countries.
- ‘Huge Victory’ for
Muslims
- Panafrican News Agency, 8 September 2000. A banned book
that details the 1998 massacre of four Tanzanian Muslim
youth by police and alleges that police tortured and
sexually humiliated Muslim women has now been placed on the
Internet. Its publication on Internet defies President
Mkapa's order banning the book, titled Mwembechai
Killings and the Political Future of Tanzania from
ever entering the country.
- Private Investor to Take Over National
Telecommunications Company
- TOMRIC Agency, 27 September 2000. The Detecon/MSI, which
is a German and Dutch Consortium, will soon take-over the
Tanzania Telecommunications Company, that had previously
belonged to the people of Tanzania. The government launched
the tender to privatize TTLC at the end of June
1999. Detecon and MSI are already operating
telecommunications networks in 13 African countries.