Roshan

Roshan
legal form	Corporation
founding	2003
Seat	Kabul , Afghanistan
management	Karim Khoja , CEO; Altaf Ladak ; Amiruddin Ahmad
sales	1,200 (2014)
Branch	telecommunications
Website	www.roshan.af

Roshan ( Persian روشن); is the brand name of Telecom Development Company of Afghanistan Ltd and is Afghanistan's leading wireless operator with around six million customers .

history

The Telecom Development Company of Afghanistan Ltd (TDCA) was founded in 2003 by a consortium led by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a non-governmental development aid organization of the Aga Khan Foundation .

In September 2004 a partnership agreement was signed between the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the AKDN to support projects in Afghanistan . To this end, KfW and its subsidiary, DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, work long-term with AKDN.

In 2012, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) granted Roshan a US $ 65 million senior loan to a World Bank company to purchase a 3G license for Afghanistan and build a 3G network .

Companies

Roshan is the largest of two major telecommunications companies in Afghanistan with six million customers and is owned by the following companies:

51.00% - Aga Khan Development Network
36.75% - Monaco Telecom International (MTI), a subsidiary of Cable & Wireless
12.25% - Alcatel

Individual evidence

↑ Prince Aga Khan IV. Visits KfW ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report from KfW dated February 10, 2014 @1@ 2

^ Telecom Development Company of Afghanistan. In: IFC project database. November 20, 2012, accessed May 28, 2016 .

^ Nazir Peroz: Framework for a Functional IT Supply in Higher Education in Afghanistan . LIT, 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10225-6 , pp. 11 ff . (on Google Books )

[1] Prince Aga Khan IV. Visits KfW ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report from KfW dated February 10, 2014 @1@ 2

[2] Telecom Development Company of Afghanistan. In: IFC project database. November 20, 2012, accessed May 28, 2016 .

[3] Nazir Peroz: Framework for a Functional IT Supply in Higher Education in Afghanistan . LIT, 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10225-6 , pp. 11 ff . (on Google Books )