Be MOBILE to make profit in second year :: Mmegi Online

Botswana's ICT whiz kid, Thapelo Lippe predicts that the latest entrant into the cellular network provider market, be MOBILE will make profits in its second financial year. Be MOBILE is the third cellphone network provider in the country after Mascom and Orange.

It went on air 13 months ago. Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) which owns be MOBILE is headed by Lippe. BTC pumped more than P200 million towards the end of 2007 to set up the cellphone network provider.Lippe should know what he is talking about when he says be MOBILE will make profits this year. Orange made profits when he took over after eight years of losses but now he says be MOBILE will make it this year.

"We are going to be producing profits before the end of this year even against the hard economic recession," he said. The general manager of be MOBILE, Anthony Masunga shares Lippe's sentiments that be MOBILE will be a force to reckon with in the industry.

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