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Posted on Sunday 22 November 2009 - 06:30
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Maina Waruru, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Egyptian telecommunications infrastructure firm, Mobiserve, has opened an office in Kenya as it seeks to expand its operations throughout Africa. The ten-year-old company intends to use its Kenyan office to serve the region as it capitalizes on the fastest growing industry on the continent.
The company’s CEO Sameh Atalla said the firm will hire quality telecoms engineering services and satellite services to communication service providers and vendors.

The company, he said hopes to employ up to 700 staff in the coming few years and 99% of whom will be local to support its services throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Mobiserve also offers maintenance and other technical services to both satellite mobile communication service providers making his firm a one-stop service player in both sub-sectors.

In Kenya the firm hopes to build transmissions infrastructure for existing mobile phone service companies including the latest entrant Eassar communications, Safaricom Orange telecom and Zain, all of which are spreading their coverage across Kenya.

The CEO said Kenya was chosen because of its advanced free-market economy, the availability of skilled labour and the fact that Kenya government was encouraging foreign investments.

The company has operations in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Egypt the firm owns a subsidiary Egyptian Satellite.

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