Selcom

Selcom is a wholly-Tanzanian owned private company that was founded in 2001 as a prepaid airtime distributor for Celtel in Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania. Since 2001, we have focused on playing a pioneering role in the vibrant and diverse telecommunications sector - an important driver of the Tanzanian economy. We are best known for owning and operating the largest independent network of point-of-sale (POS) terminals with almost 7,000 terminals countrywide.

Selcom is a Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority licensee and holds a National Application Services License. We are also recognized by the Bank of Tanzania as a leading enabler of mobile banking and bill payment services for numerous banks. To date, Selcom has connected more than 30 banks to mobile banking for core services.

Under the Selcom Gaming company banner we technically enabled Africa’s first SMS-based national text-and-win competition. In line with our first core principle of innovation, the service is built on technology that has been developed in-house by our local experts. Being at the forefront of innovation in the country has made us a reliable solution provider and developer for large clients such as, Coca Cola, Barclays Bank and Tanzania Breweries as a direct result of our second core principle. Led by our third and final core principle of service, we have developed an extensive portfolio of services that caters to a wide range of clients. Some projects that we have developed include the creation of middleware, wallets, mobile financial solutions (MFS) for cash-in, cash-out and the payment of goods and services as well as, MFS-to-bank and bank-to-MFS switching. All our products run on Selcom Conduit, the in-house developed platform.

Recently, Selcom has begun operations in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Botswana and Ghana.

Over 10 years have gone by since we took our first step but this is only the beginning for Selcom. At Selcom we turn challenges into opportunities for innovation and growth.