{"id":10083,"date":"2012-04-19T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/cafe-mobile-becomes-sixth-ivorian-mobile-operator\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:21:00","slug":"cafe-mobile-becomes-sixth-ivorian-mobile-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cafe-mobile-becomes-sixth-ivorian-mobile-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Mobile becomes sixth Ivorian mobile operator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Company is Ivory Coast’s first domestically-owned operator<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Possesses a network capacity of 3 million users<\/p>\n

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ABIDJAN, April 19<\/span> (Reuters) – New domestically-owned mobile
\noperator Cafe Mobile has launched services in Ivory Coast,
\nbecoming the West African nation’s sixth operator, the company’s
\npresident said.<\/p>\n

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Cafe Mobile’s network has a capacity of around 3 million
\nusers, and the company hopes to gain 1 million customers by the
\nend of year, Ivorian entrepreneur Niamoutie Kouao told a news
\nconference in the commercial capital Abidjan late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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“We are going to have lots of customers with our policy of
\nlow prices. Our ambition is to have our share of the
\nmarket…We’re hoping to be very successful,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Ivory Coast counts between 15 and 16 million mobile phone
\nsubscriptions compared to just 300,000 existing landlines.<\/p>\n

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Cafe Mobile, entirely owned by Ivorian investors, joins
\nFrance Telecom’s Orange, South Africa’s MTN,
\nLibya’s Green, Etisalat’s Moov and Koz, owned by
\nLebanon-based Comium, already operating in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n

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Kouao said the company had paid 20 billion CFA francs
\n($40.01 million) for its operating licence and currently
\npossesses working capital of 10 billion CFA.<\/p>\n

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Cafe Mobile’s operations will initially be limited to the
\ncountry’s south but service would gradually expand to the north
\nwith planned investments of 40 billion CFA by the end of the
\nyear, Kouao said.
\n($1 = 499.8720 CFA francs)\t<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Editing by Joe Bavier and
\nRichard Valdmanis)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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