Somtel awards Alcatel-Lucent 4G contract

The Somalian mobile network operator, Somtel has awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent for the deployment of a LTE network.

The contact is understood to involve 70 locations that have been identified for the upgrade.

Somalia currently has an estimated 1.5 million mobile subscribers, while Somtel has 33 per cent market share in the country. Somtel is part of the Dahabshiil Group.