Customers with Mozambique’s mobile company TMcel will not be able to phone people using the Vodacom network from Thursday because of an unpaid debt of about $9.6m (£6.8m).
Vodacom, the dominant mobile phone operator in Mozambique, said TMcel had failed to pay interconnection tariffs since 2018.
Mozambique has three mobile providers:
- Vodacom has 49 % of market share, with more than seven million subscribers
- Movitel has 28% of market share, with more than 3.7 million subscribers
- TMcel has 23% of market share, with less than three million subscribers.
TMcel, which was the first mobile phone firm to operate in Mozambique, has been fighting off bankruptcy.
Vodacom says texting services will remain uninterrupted in order to ensure people are not completely disconnected from one another.
Source: BBC
