[b][2] The company obtained a GSM and WiMax license, and provided service under the network name of SAFARIS.
[3] In 2006 Africa Cellulaire received a term loan of US$1.569 million from the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank to partly finance expansion of their GSM network nationwide.
On 1 October 2014 the Telecommunications Regulation and Control Agency (ARCT) asked Africell if it wanted to renew its license fo US$10 million.
In a letter of 6 October 2014 Mehieddine Makkaoui, CEO of Tempo Africell, told ARCT that the licence would not be renewed and the company would close its GSM service due to "difficult economic and financial circumstances".
Bernard Busokoza, founder and vice-president of the board of directors, asked for time to restructure.