Telesom is a private telecommunication company established in 2002 by local entrepreneurs in
Hargeisa
Hargeisa ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland, a ''List of states with limited recognition, de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still considered internationally to be part of Somalia. It is also th ...
,
Somaliland
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, E ...
. It is the leading provider of ICT services in the country and offers a wide range of products including voice and mobile broadband, fixed broadband, SMS, mobile money, mobile education, mobile infotainment, and cloud offerings such as
SaaS
Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike oth ...
,
IaaS, and
PaaS
Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a cloud computing service model where users provision, instantiate, run and manage a modular bundle of a computing platform and applications, w ...
services.
Telesom was the first to introduce 2G, 3G, and LTE services to the country, and played a significant role in rebuilding the country after the war by building a robust telecommunication infrastructure and enabling access to digital payments via its flagship mobile money platform ZAAD SERVICE
.
The company operates in the entire Somaliland, where it has the largest operation, and the company has affiliations with the biggest telecommunication companies in the neighboring countries and shares regional and international roaming service with them.
History
Founded in 2002 by local
stakeholders, it became the first telecommunications company to operate in
Somaliland
Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland, is an List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised country in the Horn of Africa. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden and bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, E ...
.
Dara Salam Bank
Dara-Salam Bank is a branch of SsB bank. The Dara-Salaam Bank was created in 2010, before its inception the bank was known as Salaam Financial Services.
darasalaambank.com, 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016
Products and Services
* Mobile money transfer
* Mobile internet
* Landline
See also
* Ministry of Telecommunications and Technology (Somaliland)
References
External links
Telesom
Communications in Somaliland
Companies based in Hargeisa
Telecommunications companies of Somaliland
2002 establishments in Somaliland
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