Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) is the oldest and largest fixed line telecommunications company in Tanzania. The company comes forth from the former Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation in 1993. TTCL was wholly owned by the Government of Tanzania until the partial privatization of the company on February 23, 2001.
TTCL is governed by statute – the Tanzania Telecommunications Act of 1993. The company is licensee for fixed basic telephone services in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar and hence it owns and operates the public switched telephone network in mainland Tanzania and on Zanzibar. Before the coming of mobile operators in late 1994, the company was enjoying monopoly on Tanzania Mainland and a duopoly on Tanzania Zanzibar, where Zanzibar Telecoms Limited (Zantel) was the second licensed fixed basic telephony operator.
The company has been in several joint managements due to its financial instability. In early 2001, Previously as Zain, at that time Dutch MSI, which has its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Detecon took over Board and Management control of TTCL. In this partial privatisation the government of Tanzania sold 35% of its shares to the strategic investors. TTCL pulled out from joint management with the consortium in August 2005. Again in February 2007 the company fell in management of the Canadian firm Sasktel due to the same reason.
In February 1999 TTCL was having an exchange capacity of 192,365 lines and 126,515 connected direct exchange lines (DELs). The company was having a workforce of under 4,000 as at February 1999. The company's revenues were approximately US$112 million in 1998, its earnings before interest, tax and depreciation were approximately US$32 million in the same year, and following a major capital restructuring it had a ‘clean’ balance sheet.
The company has its headquarters and customer care allocated in Extelecom's Building in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. TTCL also has operational and engineering branches in all regions in the country. It has been working with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd as the infrastructure vendor of the company and Ericsson as a long-term strategic supplier of the company.
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