MTN negotiates renewal of Kigali telecom license
Despite having infrastructural challenges MTN Rwanda is due to renew its license to operate as a communication service provider in Rwanda, according to the MTN Group Integrated Report of the year 2007.
The company that was given a five year duopoly, after a cabinet decision in 2003 to operate as national operators together with another telecom operator Rwandatel, will have its operational license expire by the end of the year.
Under the licence, MTN Rwanda was to construct, maintain and operate a 900MHz, 1800MHz and 1900MHz (including cellular public pay telephones) GSM telecommunication network within the geographic territory of Rwanda. Regulators in Rwanda have since this year found the provision of these requirements sub-standard calling for a penalty against the telecom operator.
