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Tigo wins Ookla® Award as the Fastest Mobile Network in Tanzania

The Ookla Award is an elite designation reserved for fixed and mobile providers in a market, based on consumer-initiated tests and background scans from speed test applications

Tanzania’s digital lifestyle telecommunication company, Tigo (www.Tigo.co.tz), which is a part of the Axian Telecom Group has won the prestigious Ookla® Speedtest Award™ as the Fastest Mobile Network in Tanzania for the year 2023. The Ookla Award is an elite designation reserved for fixed and mobile providers in a market,…

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Tigo Tanzania simplifies mobile money services across the East Africa region

Tigo Pesa customers can now send and receive money from M-PESA in Kenya, MTN in Uganda, Airtel and MTN in Rwanda

Tanzania’s leading digital lifestyle company, Tigo Tanzania (www.Tigo.co.tz), launched a service that allows all Tigo Pesa customers to send and receive cash  on  their mobile money wallets  from M-PESA in Kenya, MTN in Uganda and MTN and Airtel in Rwanda. The service now ensures that Tigo Pesa customers are connected…

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Tigo Launches 4G+ Network in Tanzania

Tigo 4G+ offers customers the best and most reliable digital experience at no additional cost

Tanzania’s leading digital lifestyle company Tigo (www.Tigo.co.tz), has today heightened the availability of ultra-fast digital experience for data customers in the country with the launch of 4G+ network. The 4G+ network further distinguishes Tigo as the mobile operator that innovates with customers in mind and provides better and more efficient…

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    • Tigo Tanzania's Chief Officer for Mobile Financial Services, Hussein Sayed (left), briefs journalists on the GSMA Mobile Money Certification that Tigo Pesa mobile money service has received at the GSMA-Mobile 360 World Congress held in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, yesterday, making Tigo Pesa one of the first mobile money services in the world to receive the prestigious certification . Flanking him is Tigo's Corporate Communications Manager, Woinde Shisael (right)
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Tigo Tanzania Achieves Global Mobile Money Certification

The GSMA Mobile Money Certification defines and promotes excellence in the provision of mobile financial services to our customers

Tigo Tanzania’s (www.Tigo.co.tz) mobile financial services business, Tigo Pesa (www.Tigo.co.tz/tigo-pesa), has received the GSMA Mobile Money Certification, recognizing Tigo’s ability to deliver safe, transparent, reliable and more resilient services that promote consumer rights and prevent malicious transactions. Tigo Pesa is amongst the first mobile financial services providers around the globe…

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    • Tigo Managing Director, Simon Karikari, (second left), and the General Manager of Uber East Africa, Loic Amado shake hands after announcing the partnership between Tigo and Uber Tanzania in Dar es Salaam last Monday. Others are: Uber Country Manager, Alfred Msemo and Tigo’s head of Mobile Financial Services, Hussein Sayed. Photo/Tigo
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Tigo Tanzania and Uber Partner to Offer Exciting New Offers to Customers in Dar es Salaam

From today, all Tigo customers will use the Uber app for free

Leading digital lifestyle company Tigo Tanzania (www.Tigo.co.tz) has entered into an exceptional partnership with technology company Uber (www.Uber.com). From today, all Tigo customers will use the Uber app for free. The first of its kind partnership will be beneficial to existing Uber riders and driver-partners and encourage more riders to…

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    • Tigo’s Chief Technical and Information Officer, Jerome Albou addresses senior editors from Tanzanian media during the workshop on Tigo’s network modernization initiative. The workshop was conducted at Tigo Headquarters in Dar es Salaam. Photo: Tigo
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Tigo customers to enjoy high-quality services with modernized network infrastructure

Despite the changing dynamics in market conditions and ecosystem, value chains, competition and regulation challenges, customer demands and usage behavior, Tigo continues to stand out from the crowd mainly due to its culture of customer-oriented innovation

Tigo Tanzania (www.Tigo.co.tz) customers are now set to continue enjoying high-tech services following the announcement of a massive drive by the telecom operator to further modernize its network infrastructure. The news of the upgrade, revealed recently in Dar es Salaam will be music to the ears of the subscribers even…

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Tigo Launches First State-of-the-Art Call Centre in Tanzania

Boasting the latest technology, the Call Centre complete with embedded data security measures to protect customer information and identity, has been designed to offer Tigo customers dedicated world-class service

Tigo (www.Tigo.co.tz), Tanzania’s leading Digital Lifestyle company, has announced the opening of a new state of the art Call Centre, the first of its kind in the country.  Boasting the latest technology, the Call Centre complete with embedded data security measures to protect customer information and identity, has been designed to offer…

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Tigo continues to support mobile birth registration in Tanzania

Decentralized births and deaths registration system for under-fives to benefit over 650,000 children in Geita and Shinyanga regions

Tanzania’s digital lifestyle company, Tigo (www.Tigo.co.tz), has continued to support the Tanzania government’s under-five birth registration initiative through an innovative mobile application that is massively accelerating provisioning of birth certificates for children under the age of five. The under-five birth registration drive, launched in Geita and Shinyanga regions along the Lake Victoria…

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    • Tigo Tanzania Managing Director, Diego Gutierrez (right), hands over a dummy cheque to Nancy Sumari, (right, in white), one of the winners of the Tigo Digital Change-makers’ awards in Dar es Salaam last Thursday. Looking on are, Tigo Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Halima Okash, (center) and Reach for Change Country Manager, Josephine Msambichaka (Photo Courtesy: Tigo)
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Tigo Tanzania awards $40,000 to support projects run by local social entrepreneurs

Digital lifestyle telecom company unveils 5th edition winners of annual Change-Makers’ competition

Tigo Tanzania (www.Tigo.co.tz), in partnership with a non-profit organization, Reach for Change (http://Africa.ReachForChange.org), has given an award of USD 20,000 each to two winners of the 5th edition of the Tigo Digital Changemakers Competition. The competition aims at identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who use digital tools and technology to…

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    • (L-R) Tigo Brand Manager, William Mpiga, left, speaks to the media during the introduction of ‘Halichachi’ data and voice bundle in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday this week; right is Tigo’s Corporate Communications Manager, Woinde Shisael. Photo courtesy: Tigo
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“Bando HaliChachi”: Tigo Trailblazing Yet Another First For Tanzania

The new bundle, dubbed in Swahili “Bando HaliChachi” (translated “bundle that does not expire”) is testament to Tigo’s unwavering commitment to giving customers the freedom to communicate

Following the launch of “Megamix” - the first ever Data bundle with Free Minutes and SMS, in October 2016, Tigo Tanzania (www.Tigo.co.tz) has thrilled customers once again with the launch of yet another data and voice bundle combo.  The new bundle, dubbed in Swahili “Bando HaliChachi” (translated “bundle that does…