The Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring System (TTMS) in Tanzania was implemented in March 3014 by a consortium made up of SGS and Global Voice Group (GVG) from South Africa. According to a SGS news release, the system enabled the Tanzanian Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) to dismantle clandestine telephone operations that were unlawfully receiving and transmitting telecommunication traffic without a license, causing a considerable loss of revenues to the country amounting to CHF 1.93 million francs, estimates TCRA director Ally Yahaya Simba. In a second step, the TCRA, SGS and GVG will extend the capacities of the existing ICT infrastructure to mobile money monitoring.
GVG develops and implements governance technologies in African countries. SGS – a Swiss inspection, verification, testing and certification company – employs 80,000 people in over 1,650 offices and laboratories around the world.