Tanzania’s telecommunications sector is one of the country's most competitive. Mobile phone penetration is approaching 70 percent, with an annual subscriber base growth of more than 20 percent. Price wars among the major operators have adversely affected many of the smaller players, which suffer from rapid customer churn.

Tanzania’s communications sector displayed strong growth in 2014, with growing use of mobile-banking. The market is very competitive with the following operational service providers:

Fixed network operators:

1. Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited
2. Zanzibar Telecommunications Limited (ZANTEL

Mobile network operators:

1. Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited
2. Zanzibar Telecommunications Limited (ZANTEL)
3. Vodacom Tanzania Limited
4. MIC Tanzania Limited (TIGO)
5. Airtel Tanzania Limited
6. Benson Informatics Limited (Smart)
7. Dovetel (T) Limited (SASATEL) Smile
8. Viettel

There are active mobile-phone operators as of July 2015 and – market share was Zantel 5 percent, Airtel (formerly Zain) 30 percent, TIGO 27 percent, Vodacom 37 percent, Benson 0 percent and TTCL 1 percent - with coverage in almost every part of the country. In addition, 62 operators held ISP and data licenses

Tanzania Voice Subscriptions

Tanzania is the second largest telecoms market in East Africa behind Kenya with a penetration of 79% of the total population in 2015 with 40m users. In the past 5 years, landline subscriptions decreased by 22%, from 174,511 in 2010 to 142,819 in 2015, while mobile subscriptions rose by 89%, from 21m in 2010 to almost 40m in 2015. To date, there are 7 landline and mobile operators in Tanzania: Airtel, Smart, Halotel, Tigo, Tanzania Telecommunication Company Limited (TTCL), Vodacom, and Zantel.

Internet Services in Tanzania

Internet services’ users in Tanzania reached 17.3m in 2015 (34% of total population), compared to only 5.3m in 2011. The number of mobile wireless users increased significantly during 2011–2015, from 3.7m to 16.2m, accounting for more than 90% of the total number of internet users. Smile launched Africa’s first 4G LTE broadband internet service in Tanzania, in March 2013.

Broadcasting Services in Tanzania

The number of subscribers for paid TV services in Tanzania increased from 152,216 in 2010 to almost 1m in 2014. Accordingly, the number of sold decoders rose from 120,188 in 2010 to over 1m in 2014 with Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) accounting for around 70% of them. The number of broadcasting service providers amounted to 46 in 2015, 25 of which are Free to Air (FTA) TV, 15 cable TV providers, 3 satellite TV providers, and 3 pay DTT. Tanzania was the first country in Africa to start the migration from analogue to digital TV transmission in December 2012.

OPPORTUNITIES FROM TELECOMMUNICATION IN TANZANIA

Liberalization has opened up opportunities to establish new telecommunications operations, particularly for mobile phone operators, public data communication operators, closed user group data communication providers, radio paging service providers and Internet service businesses. Opportunities also exist to provide modern technology and support services to the current industry operators. Provision of secure credentialing will be a significant area of opportuni

However, mobile banking is growing fast, as many more Tanzanians use cell phones than use the internet. With smaller average transaction amounts, money laundering safeguards are a lesser concern.

 Contributing to increase GDP in Tanzania countries

1. Provide direct and indirect job creation for eample managers a and technical officer all over the countries
2. Shares. Through the telecommunication sector only Vodacom Company is shareholder in Tanzania which contribute the growth of the economy in Tanzania.
3. Easy the transporting activities for example to day TIGO telecommunication launched the TWENDE APP which come as tae savior of the transportation sector because people can be able to access information of the transportation route and their prices.