PRESS RELEASE

Halotel to cover 95% of the Tanzanian population by 2016

Dar Es Salaam, 5th January, 2016: Halotel, the new telecom company, which has a
vision to provide every Tanzanian with the best quality of mobile services and bring
communication and information technology to every corner of Tanzania under their
slogan Together for the Better, has announced today that it will cover 95% of the
Tanzanian population with 3G network by the end of 2016, making Halotel the widest
network coverage in the country.
In 2016, Halotel continues to deploy Backup Rings (New Transmission Line) to Basic
Transeciever Station (BTS) which ensures that the signal is strong and smooth
everytime and everywhere whenever there is an interruption or problem in network,
thus recovers network automatically, bringing to Tanzanians improved experience of
high and new level of mobile services.
With a total value investment of 1 billion US dollars, after constructing and installing
network infrastructure in just one year, Halotels operations in Tanzania have already
expanded services to all 26 regions in the country across rural and urban areas,
bringing broadband mobile service to 1,500 villages, which had not been connected
before.
Speaking of the telecoms plans for the year 2016, Halotel Deputy Managing Director,
Mr Le Van Dai said Halotel will continue its commitment with the government of
Tanzania to provide mobile services to another 1,500 villages, which had not been
connected before and through their stable and wide network, customer service and
corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, the company is committed to
improving the telecommunications landscape in Tanzania and contributing to the
development of both the country and its people.
We would like to thank the government of Tanzania and its people for the warm
reception they have given us in their country, and now entering 2016, Halotel is going
to bring more innovations, rewards, and promotions for our valuable customers said
Mr Dai.
Mr Dai also said Halotel is a partnership between the government of Vietnam and
Tanzania, and therefore Halotel will always abide by the governing laws of Tanzania
for the investment to benefit both countries and citizens.
As a strategic investor, we are committed to provide best quality of telecommunication
service with affordable prices to our customers, ensure our operations abides to the
regulations and laws of Tanzania and to build the good working environment and
transfer technology to Tanzanian said Mr Dai.

In 2015, although getting lots of incentive exemption in taxes, Halotel paid huge
amount of taxes to national treasure amounting to 18 million USD, in that 10 million
USD for insurance taxes, 5 million USD for import taxes.
Mr Dai further noted that Halotel has already created over 1,500 direct and 20,000
indirect jobs, insisting that his company abides to the Tanzania Labour law, ensuring
all their 250 Vietnamese experts have work permit, and during this year, Halotel will
continue to reduce its Vietnamese experts to accelerate transference of skils to
Tanzanian.
Currently we have 1,505 total number of Tanzanian employees. 1,021 staffs are
registered to different social security funds (SSF) of their choice, 484 probation staffs
are on the initial process to register, and on top of that our human resource policy
ensures employees interests are prioritized said Mr Dai.
Mr Dai also expressed his dismay to the incidences of theft and robbery facing
Halotels infrastructure, noting that a total of 52 cases has been reported to authorities
since January to December 2015, causing damages of 393 million Tanzania shillings.
Halotels goal is to ensure each Tanzanian has a mobile phone thus change the the
way people live and the way a countrys economy develops.
With an infrastructure of 18,000 km of fibre optic cables and more than 2,500 base
receivers all over the country, Halotel is the widest telecom in the country, and
alongside that, Halotel is going to provide optical cable to 150 committees, 150 public
hospitals, 150 police stations, 65 post offices and free internet for 450 schools said Mr
Dai.

About Halotel
Halotel is the new mobile network operator in Tanzania officially launched on 15 th
October, 2015. Over a short period of time, Halotel has built 18,000 km of optic fiber,
almost 2.500 of Base Transceive stations (BTSs); especially, Halotel has brought the
broadband mobile service to 1,500 villages which had not been connected before.
That is the first step in the process of popularizing telecommunications in Tanzania. It
is also the first concrete result from the Viettel Groups commitment to the Government
of Tanzania. In a very near future, the fiber optic network up to 28,000 km; the BTS up
to 3,500 will connect every commune of the country, and more
With the strong telecom infrastructure, Halotel is implementing many social
programmes in Tanzania namely Bringing Free Internet for 450 schools (which has
electricity and intranet already) within 3 years (150 schools each year). Especially, to
help the local authority do the management work effectively, Halotel has optic cable
connected to 150 committee offices, 150 hospitals, 150 police stations, 65 post offices
at district level.

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