Zambia cancels licence of Vodafone franchise holder over poor capacity

LUSAKA: Zambia’s communications regulator said on Thursday it had cancelled the licence for Vodafone’s local franchise holder, citing a lack of technical and financial capacity.

Vodafone in 2016 licensed Afrimax, a telecommunications service provider in sub-Saharan Africa to offer customers high speed 4G data services using the Vodafone Zambia brand.

Vodafone said it had terminated the agreement with Afrimax in April 2018, and had no ongoing relationship with the company.

No one at Afrimax was immediately available to comment.

The company, registered as Mobile Broadband Ltd, has lately been experiencing operational problems and issued a statement in July saying its shareholders had failed to recapitalise it.