North Eastern Telecommunications Company (Netco Ltd.) is a
telecommunication
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
s company established in 1993 in
Bosaso, the commercial capital of
Puntland a federal regional state of
Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, th ...
.
Overview
Netco is owned by
Ismael Haji Abdi, an
MBA graduate from
Wisconsin University,
USA, and is part of the
Somali Telecom Group of companies. It is the largest telecommunications firm in the autonomous
Puntland region of Somalia.
Netco is a rapidly developing company and has grown massively in the past 15 years, with a current customer-base of over 800,000 individuals.
Services
The company supplies home phones,
mobile phone
A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...
networks and
internet services. One of Netco's next targets is to supply
electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...
throughout Puntland, a project which will take place within the next five years.
See also
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Somtel
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Golis Telecom Somalia
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Hormuud Telecom
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Telcom Telcom may refer to:
* Telephone company, a provider of telecommunications services, such as telephony and data communications
* Telcom (Ireland), a telecommunications company
* Telcom (Somalia), a telecommunications network operator
* Telcom (c ...
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Somali Telecom Group
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NationLink Telecom
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Somafone
References
NICI Policy – Somalia – Telecommunications Structure and PolicyLists telecommunications service providers in Somalia.
– God Bless Bosaaso! (mentions Ismael Abdi Ahmed at Betco)
Telecommunications companies of Somalia
Bosaso
1993 establishments in Somalia
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