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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.