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Govt Still Considering Giving Fourth Mobile Licence
Government says it is still considering allowing a fourth mobile service provider in the country to allow competition in telecommunication services.
Last year government indicated that the fourth mobile license can only be given after digital migration.
Transport, Works, Supply and Communications Deputy Minister Richwell Siamunene has told QFM News that there are certain issues that government is looking at before allowing a fourth mobile service provider to come on board.
Mr. Siamunene says there is also need to promote competition in telecommunication sector so that mobile service providers can provide quality services to their subscribers.
Mr. Siamunene says government is still looking at that issue critically saying government wants to promote competition in the telecommunication sector.
He believes that once the fourth mobile service provider is introduced, service costs will come down because of competition.
Posted by Kunda
on June 21, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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mj banda
June 21, 2015 at 10:32 am
Competition is very important and hence the need to bring in another provider and hope it won’t be a fly by night one
kabaso
June 21, 2015 at 10:35 am
they started looking into it as far back as 2003, this is 2015 they are looking into it. big eyeballed Government.
Zibwidi
June 21, 2015 at 2:02 pm
@Kabaso, Learn to write facts. MTN came on the scene 2005 and you’re talking 2003. This is 2015, suck it up, 4th GSM is coming through.
kakolwe
June 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm
You probably were born in 2004 coz you do not know that Telecel wuich metamorphosed into MTN was on the scene before 2005. Vodacom has been trying to jump into the Zm market as far back as 2003. Basukafye ba Kavindele baikalafye.
kabaso
June 21, 2015 at 6:22 pm
Walasa mwandi, tell them they seem to be blank.
kabaso
June 21, 2015 at 6:31 pm
Zam-cell, Telecel and CellZ (Zamtel) were there before MTN, Government was looking into bringing a fourth operator. I know that time you were in the village you never knew about cell phones.
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 10:40 am
Kiki who can trust pf?we have all lost confidence in a party that has led us to the worst economic performance in history. They preached about infrastructure development without a solid plan and all they did is borrow without thinking of future.in 2016 if you have a brain vote upnd
Vampiro @ ONYX POWER
June 21, 2015 at 4:28 pm
I have brain but I can’t vote for Upnd not even hh
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 6:06 pm
any creature can have a brain. However, a few people have any sense in it.
Shaka Zulu
June 21, 2015 at 10:56 am
Let them quickly bring in the fourth mobile company.Indeed this ‘looking into’ has taken just too long. We have been hearing this story for a long time now.
Chief of Grief
June 21, 2015 at 11:12 am
Yes,plizzz do pantu the ones we hev momentarily hev exobitant price rates!in short matole sana with no apologies to make…..
huckster
June 21, 2015 at 11:46 am
Oh f u koff!
Chief of Grief
June 21, 2015 at 1:11 pm
Iwr@huckster musurunyoko motherphuker!niwe nani kabeleshe wiso six box matches chikala chobe.!!
Chibwili
June 21, 2015 at 11:22 am
Siamunene,Kafwaya,Monde & Njeulu are all UPNDs & they are doing fine in Government but you hate them why?Does this mean that UPND will not be working with the opposition?I pity you ba UPND because you are too selfish & hypocritical,thats why i can never support you
Vampiro @ ONYX POWER
June 21, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Tongas are selfish by nature mwana and that’s why they can’t lead this nation.
meanwhile..........
June 21, 2015 at 11:34 am
Emily Oliver
June 21, 2015 at 11:40 am
lets finalize the digital migration first and then talk about a 4th and 5th opeartor
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 12:02 pm
The only way to achieve digital migration is to migrate your political allegiance to upnd
Boma
June 21, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Never until privatization loot is explained to the core
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 5:03 pm
please dig up chiluba and michael sata from their graves if you want a categorical explanation about privatisation. Was UPND there when your fallen heros were busy selling your country for peanuts? Actually, even now the PF is selling this country for nothing. Just follow the kabwata tennis court scandal. So please do not be foolish
Robert Swetu
June 21, 2015 at 12:49 pm
For sure bring Vodacom,MTN has become expensive infact it is the expensive service provider currently.
Chitutuma
June 21, 2015 at 12:57 pm
Award the license to VODACOM. They are a gas!
Beautiful Moma
June 21, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Welcome Vodacom! Heck even Glo and Orascom Telecom can join the race. Zamtel is still limping. Hopefully, this leads to a reduction in consumer rates and development of new and innovative products best suited to the consumer’s needs. Not ama competition yabupuba which no one wins. There are even competition results which are manipulated by employees to benefit their shagmates. Really laughable.
Vampiro @ ONYX POWER
June 21, 2015 at 4:33 pm
MTN has condomised so they ‘ve nothing to loose because each time @moma is shagging mtn is gaining.
Beautiful Moma
June 21, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Chi Vampiro, wabe ishina kuntanshi ati ONYX POWER kwati ni shagmate wakwa @Moma. Waba ulubuli kwati nalimo ulemfwaya, amano ububi. Walipanda iwe, nomba unasheko pantu ilomba lyobe likakwipaya.
Kanshi echo ndekulotela ubushiku, ati ulempepeka,mulandu wafi ONYX POWER. tekwehsa kuli ine pantu Mwine Lubemba ni ba shikulu. You know what that means.
Beautiful Moma
June 21, 2015 at 5:52 pm
Happy Father’s day by the way. Wilalanda na pa ma condom ushaishiba ukwisula. Tabesula condom na scissors sha!
You started it hun.
Vampiro @ ONYX POWER
June 22, 2015 at 1:33 am
Kikiki I like the way you come out. You can make a very good and classic female.
major chileshe
June 22, 2015 at 8:56 am
HahahHahahahahahahahahahaha yab
MERCY
June 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm
All mobile providers are expensive.Bring vodacom.
mj banda
June 21, 2015 at 9:58 pm
@mercy, who said Vodacom is cheap, they r all damn expensive and you ll regret if Vodacom comes to Zambia
young boss
June 21, 2015 at 1:50 pm
we need progress in Zambia ba fikala mwebakutashi pliz
chanda
June 21, 2015 at 1:54 pm
Zambia needs a mobile provider like Verizon or metro pcs so people can have unlimited talk, text and data for one monthly charge
ichintu2o11
June 21, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Ba zed be mature sometimes yo tribal politiking will never swade zambians from trusting the Pf. …
Kawalala party
June 21, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Zambia is finished bane kulawayawayafye kikikikikikiki
Kamba ka bakapola
June 21, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Iwe naiwe chikala @NEZ your silly comments nefya naba kachema understand the topic bukala bwanama efyo balekwebela niwe Chanda Cimbwi careful tomba kalukuluku with yor comments.
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 5:05 pm
very foolish way to articulate a point. You are a typical PF cadre. Please can you guys be serious for a change and engage us maturely. You are making 2016 easy for us.
Married Monk
June 21, 2015 at 4:38 pm
VODACOM is da way to go we are ready to migrate
Kobe
June 21, 2015 at 4:44 pm
“Snakes Can Talk, People Can Fly, And A Superman kesus Lives Up In The Sky!”
Chewe the virgin
June 21, 2015 at 5:43 pm
That will be nice because communication will consequently become cheaper.upnd fool let me tell you that your party that is full of merchants of death will never win. It was formed in 1998 and has never gone to state house. I have been observing your foolishness here,even when the topic is not about pf ,you find a way to drag in pf. Your small party that hated Sata and wished him dead will never rule Zambia.
Chewe the virgin
June 21, 2015 at 5:49 pm
And you call yourself new educated Zambia,why havent you translated your intelligence as upnd into a formular that can win you elections? Characters that are full of nothing but bitterness. It hurts you that zambian people have rejected you and wait for 2016 you will cry again.
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 6:08 pm
kikiki just like any other zambian, even foolish ones have the right to have an opinion. Therefore I have to respect that opinion as we in the UPND are a listening party. However, I want you to be honest with yourself and think hard about the current situation zambia faces. I want you to tell me if you are happy and if all your relatives are living a good life without any complaints. If so, then feel free to vote for PF. If not, then contact me
Fabio M.
June 22, 2015 at 8:35 am
NEZ be real! If your brain works well,Where will votes for upnd to win 2016 general elections come from? Let me be particular, no political party in Zambia will bring milk and butter to every citizen but each citizen must work hard like what hh is doing at his farm though he gives us pea nuts. Many pipo kno the party they will vote for.
son of a Gunman
June 21, 2015 at 6:22 pm
My word!come true!let’s hope that’s Vodafone.then I won’t have to be changing sim cards like pants.
Kwati like so
June 21, 2015 at 7:29 pm
Watching those ladies moving from rainbow 2 pf makes me feel sad. R they normal?
son of a Gunman
June 21, 2015 at 8:02 pm
Yes very normal,check your mental status maybe needs rehab,cause what would a normal being not consider Norma when they are simply exercising their right,who are you to Judge them?generally your IQ levels leaves much to be desired.Like I stated a few months ago,Winter was chased like a monkey in a maize field,wonder what its gonner be like this time around,watch the spec.
son of a Gunman
June 21, 2015 at 8:25 pm
The ladies in question have even given reasons why the defections,that they have seen Hospitals,roads,wheelchairs being destibuted to the disabled,medicines in Hospitals,they see no point in a MuZUNGU WABULA KAJO!like that desperate parasite.MULYOKELA is even popular than he thinks he is,let him Engage them constructively with real issues affecting them not desperately rushing to StateHouse.mind u,power is Godly Given,from Biblical times still applies.
kakolwe
June 21, 2015 at 9:16 pm
Imwe people, plz, leave @NEZ alone. They man is so widely read & intelligent such that he knows that stupidity is not a crime. So he shows you the that he knows7s exercising is basic human rights.
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 10:40 pm
I couldnt make sense of that comment. Please rephrase in your local dialect. Excercise your right to express yourself in local dialect
Famous idiot!...
June 21, 2015 at 10:37 pm
Ishi imbushi kwati nashidula sana so ine am switching back to zampost… Apa ninkalata fye nkalatuma…
New Educated Zambia©
June 21, 2015 at 10:40 pm
kiki ukose kiki. under pf things will get worse mune
Famous idiot!...
June 21, 2015 at 10:38 pm
Ishi imbushi kwati nashidula sana so ine am switching back to zampost… Apa ninkalata fye nkalatuma no kubomfya…
Tuyakange
June 22, 2015 at 7:48 am
ALSO DO IT TO ZESCO WE NEED COMPETITION EVEN THERE
IF NOT
June 22, 2015 at 12:01 pm
VODACOM will do.