“There is no enough market room for five operators,” TNM CEO Werner Schrijver declared, “The best we can have are three operators to satisfy the market.”
“Today I stand to announce that Lacell Private Limited and Expresso Telecom Group Limited won [a] bid to add the total number of mobile operators to five in the country,” announced MACRA Board Chairman Thengo Maloya on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 at a press conference in Blantyre.
Prior to the announcement, the body issued a press release which said, after a careful and thorough scrutiny of the six bids received they had to settle for the two.
The new operators are expected to roll out their services by the end of the first half of 2010.
