NationLink Telecom
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Overview
NationLink Telecom was founded in September 1997 by Abdirizak Ido, a SomaliSomali people
Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...
Businessman who is currently President of the company based in East Africa
East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
. The company is one of the leading telecommunications service provider
Telecommunications Service Provider
A telecommunications service provider or TSP is a type of communications service provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services...
s (TSP) in Somalia and offers its services throughout the country.
Services
The company's focus is in the core areas of mobileMobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
, internet
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
and fixed line
Landline
A landline was originally an overland telegraph wire, as opposed to an undersea cable. Currently, landline refers to a telephone line which travels through a solid medium, either metal wire or optical fibre, as distinguished from a mobile cellular line, where transmission is via radio waves...
services. Its overall objective is to supply telecommunication services to all Somalis, and in the process, help improve standards of living.
See also
- Golis Telecom SomaliaGolis Telecom SomaliaGolis Telecom Somalia is the largest telecommunications operator in northeastern Somalia. Founded in 2002 with the objective of supplying the country with GSM mobile services, fixed line and internet services, it has an extensive network that covers all the major cities and more than 40 districts...
- Hormuud TelecomHormuud TelecomHormuud Telecom Somalia Inc. is a privately held telecommunications company established in April 2002 in Somalia. It has its headquarters in Mogadishu.-Overview:More than 600 Somali investors have shares in Hormuud Telecom...
- TelcomTelcomTelcom is a telecommunications network operator in Somalia. It is the first major privately-owned company providing telecommunications services to Somali cities.-Overview:...
- Somali Telecom GroupSomali Telecom GroupSomali Telecom Group is a telecommunications company based in Somalia. It was founded in 1993 in Rockville, Maryland, in the USA, by Abdirazak I. Osman, Edmund L. Resor, Abdiaziz Ismail Dualeh and Luis F. George. According to the company's website's front page, it is Somalia's "first telecom...
- Netco (Somalia)
- SomafoneSomafoneSomafone Telecommunications Service Company is Somalia's leading telecommunications company. It was formed in 2003 as a fully owned subsidiary of Somafone FZ LLC of the Dubai Internet City. The firm's head offices are located in Mogadishu.-See also:*Golis Telecom Somalia*Hormuud...
- Telesom Somaliland