Tanzania is often cited as a model competitive market in digital financial services (DFS) with the three major providers healthily competing against one another. However, the story is a bit more complicated than that, and to really understand market dynamics in Tanzania it helps to examine competition from a few angles, and on a more […]

This report is based on mobile money surveys carried out at the end of 2013.

In October 2012, GSMA MMU asked the burning question; ‘Can mobile money work for merchant payments?’ Across the developed world cards are being swiped, dipped or waved to pay for everyday purchases, but the question remains if mobile money can, or will, have the same levels of usage in the developing world. Currently mobile money providers have […]

The Tanzania Country Report is based on a national representative sample of over 2,000 mobile money agent surveys.

The authour highlights four key findings from the report and discuss their implications for market maturity and the direction of its future development.

The report paints a picture of the stage of maturity of the market there, focusing on the operational factors of success, and residual challenges the country still faces.