AIRTEL Tanzania has pledge to maintain quality service

AIRTEL Tanzania The Smartphone Network has pledged to maintain quality service provision by offering affordable total communication packages to clients. The goal is to enhance telecommunication service and solve challenges facing the sector.

Speaking in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday evening during an Iftar hosted by Airtel to partners, the Business Enterprise Director, Mr. Boniface Bwambo  said the company will maintain provision of better and quality service to the customers in order improve the growth of revenue and sustain its status during this business competitive era.

He mentioned the new products offered by the company as fixed line portfolio which gives the customers a chance to enjoy the high-speed network service of Fiber Solutions, Leased Line Solutions and Co-Location Solutions. The services are solution for online businesses, available in affordable cost in the packages offered by Airtel.

Mbwambo made the remarks during the Iftar event organized by Airtel Tanzania to its Corporate & High Value customers. He said the objective for the event is to meet and share Iftar with their dearest customers in this Ramadhan season, as well as to exchange ideas.

“We are happy to meet here today; we share the Iftar and get a chance to exchange ideas with our customers. It is a good time for us to introduce to them our product Innovations and solutions that they do not know. Our total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data to the Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for  single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, other solutions includes co-location and cloud and host solutions. We want all our clients to be aware of our ranges of product and solutions we offer to them, that’s why we appreciate them time we spend together here today ,” he said.

The Standard Bank Chief Executive Officer, Mr Sanjay Rughani was among the guest invited in the Iftar event. He thanked Airtel for organizing the event and congratulated them for offering quality and affordable services to the customers.

“They are improving their business infrastructures, a thing which is very helpful to us as their customers and business partners. For coming here today I have get to know other services offered by the company which I did not know before,” he said.

On her side the Administration and Project Manager of the National Industrial and Commercial (NIC) Bank, MsBadriaLema, said out of enjoying sharing iftar with the Airtel staffs and other people, she gets a chance to know other services offered by the company especially Airtel Money for Enterprise customers, the collection and disbursement solutions.

Airtel Tanzania Managing Director Sunil Colaso welcomes the Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Managing Director Sanjay Rughani to an Iftar hosted by the company to its clients and business partners in Dar es Salaam yesterday aimed at introducing new services which includes total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data  Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for  single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, co-location and cloud and host solutions. Center is Airtel Tanzania Chief Commercial Officer Rohit Tandon

Airtel Tanzania Managing Director Sunil Colaso welcomes one of the invited guests to an Iftar hosted by the company to its clients and business partners in Dar es Salaam yesterday aimed at introducing new services which includes total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, co-location and cloud and host solutions.. Center is Airtel Tanzania Chief Commercial Officer Rohit Tandon.

Airtel Tanzania Managing Director Sunil Colaso address  to the company’s staff, invited guests and business partners during an Iftar hosted by the company to its clients and business partners in Dar es Salaam yesterday aimed at introducing new services which includes total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, co-location and cloud and host solutions. .

The Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Managing Director Sanjay Rughani chats with other invited guests during an Iftar hosted by Airtel Tanzania to its clients and business partners in Dar es Salaam yesterday aimed at introducing new services which includes total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, co-location and cloud and host solutions.. Center is Airtel Tanzania Managing Director Sunil Colaso.

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Airtel Tanzania Business Enterprise Director Boniface Bwambo address  to the company’s staff, invited guests and business partners during an Iftar hosted by the company to its clients and business partners in Dar es Salaam yesterday aimed at introducing new services which includes total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, co-location and cloud and host solutions..

The Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania Managing Director Sanjay Rughani speaks with Airtel Tanzania Chief Commercial Officer Rohit Tandon during an Iftar hosted by Airtel Tanzania to its clients and business partners in Dar es Salaam yesterday aimed at introducing new services which includes total telecommunication solutions that ranges from pure GSM services the like of Voice, SMS and data Connectivity solutions (internet & data) for single office, branches offices, home and Global connectivity, co-location and cloud and host solutions.

AIRTEL AND iTEL UNVEILS AFFORDABLE SMARTPHONE WITH SPECIAL OFFER

·      Airtel customers to enjoy FREE 12GB, 300 Talk time,  300 SMS for six months after purchase of iTEL A32 F

·      iTEL A32 F available in all  Airtel and Itel shops across the country                                            

Dar-es-Salaam, Wednesday May 30th 2018: Airtel Tanzania the Smartphone Network in partnership with itel Mobile has today unveiled its newest smartphone model itel A32 F packed with 6 months special offer for Airtel customers across the country. 

With an increase in smartphone users Airtel and itel has created a meaningful partnership to provide access for more Tanzanians to enjoy a digital world by introducing the newest smartphone with high specification  at affordable prices. itel A32F operates the latest Android 8.1 which enhances user experience with  high speeds and great performance. 

Speaking today in Dar es Salaam during the launch, Airtel Marketing Director Isack Nchunda  said, “Airtel is happy to enter into this important  partnership with itel  to launch its latest affordable smartphone (itel A32 F) .We have considered our customers’ needs and purchasing power to unveil the itel smartphones that target middle income earners. With our stable state of the art network coverage we are certain our customers across the country will have the best experience using our services with an itel A32 F device,’

“this is a great opportunity for all current Airtel users and new customers to buy their new  itel A32 F and walk away with a free bundle by dialing *148*91#.The A32 F will be available in all Airtel and itel Shops country wide with Airtel offer which is 12 GB with validity of six months with divided into 2 GB for each month and additional of 300 sms and 300 minutes free from Airtel Tanzania”. said Nchunda

Speaking at the same occasion, itel Mobile strategic partnership business unit head Mr. Anuj Khosla said, “It has been a successful journey with Airtel Tanzania and we are happy to finally  unveil itel A32 F with one of the best offers available in the market. A32 F is the first fingerprint smartphone with the latest AndroidTM Oreo™ (Go edition) at a price which is affordable for many. With android 8.1 Orea itel A32 F is optimized to deliver a smooth and fast experience and offers quick access of applications”.

Khosla added, “itel A32 F is more advanced on Speed and Security with a Fingerprint Recognition which is packed with a customized, convenient, responsive and multi-functional. A32 F fingerprint sensor enables users to program up to eight functions like taking photo or video, answer phone call, stop alarm clock and quick launch application directly from the lock screen but also allows a user to register five fingerprints and each finger secures its own application”.

He said that other features are display size 5.0 inch which has clear resolution and quality pixel size of camera of 5mp back +2mp front both with flash which assures a clear picture even in low light environment and Internal memory of 8GB+1GB that can be extended up to 32GB.

Airtel Tanzania Director of Marketing Isack Nchuda – center, displays a new itel A32 F smartphone after unveiling in partnership with itel Mobile and Airtel Tanzania in Dar es Salaam today. The new itel A32 F smartphone comes with FREE 12GB, 300 Talk time and 300 SMS for six months from Airtel. He is flanked by itel Dar es Salaam Director of Sales and Marketing Loalla Xu – right and Itel Public Relations Manager Eric Mkomoya – left.

itel Dar es Salaam Director of Sales and Marketing Loalla Xu – right, displays a new itel A32 F smartphone after unveiling in partnership with itel Mobile and Airtel Tanzania in Dar es Salaam today. The new itel A32 F smartphone comes with FREE 12GB, 300 Talk time and 300 SMS for six months from Airtel. He is flanked by Airtel Tanzania Director of Marketing Isack Nchuda – center and Itel Public Relations Manager Eric Mkomoya – left.

Airtel Tanzania Director of Marketing Isack Nchuda – center shakes hands with  itel Dar es Salaam Director of Sales and Marketing Loalla Xu – right after unveiling a new itel A32 F smartphone in partnership with itel Mobile and Airtel Tanzania in Dar es Salaam today. The new itel A32 F smartphone comes with FREE 12GB, 300 Talk time and 300 SMS for six months from Airtel. He is flanked by Itel Public Relations Manager Eric Mkomoya – left.

Airtel Fursa comes with Airtel Money Branch investment

•  Click: www.ambranch.co.tz/patner for more detail on Airtel Money branch details

• Opens investment opportunities to all Airtel Shops in the country

Airtel Tanzania through Airtel Money has decided to offer self-employment opportunities to millions of Tanzanians by launching partnership investments to all Airtel Modern shops in the country.

To the lucky investors, Airtel Company will offer all necessary requirement’s including shop branding, floating their Airtel Money accounts and modern mobile phones which will help them run their Airtel shops.

Speaking in Dar es Salaam today while announcing the partnership, Airtel Tanzania Director of Marketing Isack Nchuda said that Airtel is committed in making sure that Tanzanians have an opportunity of self-employment through Airtel Money.

Airtel Fursa offers an opportunity to youth to showcase their talents which they need to achieve. Up to now, hundreds of youth in the country have benefited through Airtel Fursa and have been able to employ themselves. Through Airtel Money shop branch, we are sure thousands of youth will be able to employ themselves and change their living standards, said Nchuda.

Airtel has so far opened various Airtel Money shops across the country being an opportunity to Tanzanians to get employment. Apart from being self-employment to Tanzanias, this will bring closer Airtel services and products to her customers.

 All the Airtel Money branches look alike and they are in places where they are easily accessible for customers to get services and products. This will ease the burden that Airtel customers used to occur while they were in need of a such services, said Nchuda.

The Airtel Money branches will offer services including mobile money services, internet services, Airtime top up, sim card registration and connecting new customers with Airtel network.

Shinyanga District Commissioner Josephine Matiro alaunching one of the 8 Airtel shops in Shinyanga. Looking on is the Director of Airtel Tanzania,  Sunil Colaso and the Airtel Central Zone Manager Stephen Akyoo

The new Airtel Money Branch shop in Chato district in  Geita region

Behind the Smoke Screen: An Authoritarian New President

By Rafael Marques de Morais OPINION PIECE

LUANDA, Angola, May 4, 2018/ -- After the 2017 elections, the hopes ordinary Angolans placed on President João Lourenço were so high that many regarded him as a gift from God. Next September, his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos, will finally step down from the leadership of the ruling MPLA, after 39 years. The combined imperial powers of the country’s presidency and of the MPLA will make João Lourenço the absolute ruler of Angola, and it does not bode well for the country. The political partisanship of the army and the militarization of justice are two troubling trends seen since Lourenço took office. Both need to be addressed urgently before he gets comfortable with absolute power. Initially, President Lourenço enjoyed a surge of popularity thanks to a strong anti-corruption stance. He fired his predecessor’s children from key positions, and ditched some other rotten apples. He also allowed for some other senior officials to be publicly named formal suspects in grand corruption cases, though no one has yet been arrested. But these early hopes have been dashed by the appointments and promotions that President Lourenço has made, and his popularity has sunk with the same speed as he earned it. For instance, last April he appointed his own brother, General Sequeira João Lourenço, as deputy head of the President’s Intelligence Bureau, which oversees the armed forces, the national police and the intelligence services. In February, Lourenço’s government sold state-owned planes (https://goo.gl/YAoSw7) (Beechcraft 900s) to the same brother’s air company, SJL Aeronáutica, without a public tender and for an undisclosed price. Through acts like this, the president has exposed himself as a hypocrite. What is most worrying is how the President, himself a general, is endangering the already fragile cohesion of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) by handing it over to an MPLA apparatchik. The FAA originates from the 1992 integration of the former MPLA party-state People’s Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and UNITA’s former guerrilla Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FALA). The integrated army withstood the civil war that returned and ravaged the country for ten more years after its creation. Recently, President Lourenço dismissed the chief of the General Staff of the FAA, General Geraldo Sachipengo Nunda: the former FALA officer to become head of the FAA. Abroad, the move was seen as another outstanding sweep of Dos Santos’ cronies and protégés and as another example of tackling high-level corruption. The general’s name was associated with a multi billion-dollar scam. He had had been previously asked by the attorney general to resign. In an exclusive to Maka Angola (www.MakaAngola.org), General Nunda clarified his position (https://goo.gl/fREuiJ) and told how the attorney general had apologized to him for the formal announcement that he had been named a formal suspect in the scam. Legally, there was no case against him, only a political one. General Nunda’s term was due to end in October, but the President sacked him in October and replaced him with General António Egídio de Sousa Santos “Disciplina”. The appointment sent shockwaves through the army and concerned sections within society who view General Santos as a largely political figure, with little aptitude for the job as head of the armed forces. General Santos was previously deputy chief of the General Staff for Patriotic Education, which is the post-communist name for political commissariat. For two years until 2012, the general simultaneously held his position in the army and as a Central Committee member of the ruling MPLA (https://goo.gl/P1AJTi): an unconstitutional situation. He is best known for his partisanship and opportunism and lust for partying. He has thrown two lavish parties within a week to celebrate his rise to the top job of the army. In the 1980s, Lourenço headed the National Political Directorate of the FAPLA. It was in charge of all the political commissars and controlled the army on behalf of the MPLA, under the one-party system. Former political commissars have risen to the top leadership, and among them are: the current vice-president, Bornito de Sousa; the minister of state and head of the President’s Intelligence Bureau, General Pedro Sebastião; and now the head of the army, General Sousa Santos. Minutes after being sworn in, General Sousa Santos showed the press how inept and incoherent he is. Asked about the reaction of the rank and file to his appointment and his priorities for the army, he replied: “Allow me to cite the Bible. I am the good shepherd, and I know my flock, and my flock recognizes me.” The sound bite went viral on social media where many in the army, including generals, openly expressed their disbelief, and ridiculed him aplenty. Angola is a secular state. The general, who holds a PhD in History, forgot that in his attempt to dodge a basic question. Angola has an army of over 138,000 soldiers, and more than 600 generals on active duty. Retired generals are like mushrooms, too many to count. General Sousa Santos is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing. Four years ago, in 2014, we wrote about a generals’ involvement in a triumvirate which aimed to destabilize the army by placing it under the partisan control of MPLA (https://goo.gl/Y9nzpf) in the post-Dos Santos era. At the time we wrote: “the secret discussion group aimed at fostering a climate of instability within the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), in such a way as to justify purges. This strategy is known as the purification of the FAA.” The then head of the Military Intelligence and Security Service, General Zé Maria, led the group and the third party was Lieutenant-General João António Santana “Lungo” of the Security Studies Office within the Intelligence Bureau of the Presidency. “The object of the scheme is to ensure that generals who were formerly with UNITA, then a rebel movement, and who joined the FAA as the result of peace accords are seen as loyal to the UNITA political leadership and therefore will be seen as a threat to the MPLA’s hold on power, particularly in the post-Dos Santos era. “The main target of the intrigue is the current General Chief of Staff of the FAA, Geraldo Sachipengo Nunda, who left UNITA in 1993, joined the government forces, and was instrumental in destroying the war machine of his former commander, Jonas Savimbi. The rebel leader was killed in action in 2002, thus bringing the 27-year post-independence war to an end. Zé Maria and his allies are now circulating information within the FAA that Nunda is trying to promote ex-UNITA officers in order to make it easier for him eventually to seize power.” According to the plotters at the time, the partisan control of the army by MPLA would be achieved with the appointment of General Sousa Santos to the top job. Such a plot had to be addressed among the top brass of the army, and it was General Nunda himself who prevailed against the others to maintain the cohesion of FAA, and the army as a pillar of peace and national unity. President Lourenço, against conventional wisdom, has adopted the plotters’ strategy. This must be denounced for the sake of peace and democracy. Making Generals Meanwhile, President Lourenço has lost no time in creating yet several more generals, one of them already dead. On April 19, the president posthumously promoted Angola’s founding President Agostinho Neto, who died in 1979, to the rank of three-star general of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA). President Lourenço also awarded the former President José Eduardo dos Santos the rank of three-star general, and retired him from active duty through Commander-in-Chief Order 9/18. The family of the late president Neto publicly dismissed the gesture as unnecessary, and called on Lourenço to devote his attention to the living rather than the dead. But what shows General Lourenço to be a troubling copycat of General Dos Santos (ret.) is the promotion of the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Manuel Miguel da Costa Aragão, to the rank of Brigadier. The chief justice has been a civilian for decades, and was transferred from the Supreme Court, where he held the same position, on Lourenço’s orders. In 2012 President Dos Santos promoted the then-chief justice of the Supreme Court, Cristiano André, to the rank of Lieutenant-General. President Lourenço is maintaining the militarization of justice. Last December he appointed General Hélder Pitta Grós, who is still on active duty, to the country’s attorney general. The signs are mounting that President Lourenço is hiding his authoritarian claws behind the façade of his anti-corruption rhetoric. Little else is happening in the country besides smoke screens and the maintenance of the status quo. This is worrisome. So far, the only clear strategy from the president seems to be the consolidation of his personal power.

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