Shilling fares at home, dollar fares abroad
On 31 October 2026 Air Tanzania’s fares from Dar es Salaam read 438,400 TZS to Mbeya and $304 to Harare. Kupatana’s home page showed 27 prices in TZS and one in USD, for an apartment in Masaki.
Tanzania proxies for shilling prices on Kupatana, Kikuu and Air Tanzania, from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza
25K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, in a market where Vodacom, Yas, Airtel and Halotel hold 98.5% of telecom subscriptions. Residential starts at $3.49 per GB and falls to $1.69 at volume; mobile goes from $3.99 to $2.19. Logins use the country key -cc-tz; the dashboard generator shows which regions and towns are on offer.
Residential IPs25K+
Tanzanian residential addresses in the pool, October 2026.
Subscriptions on Vodacom33.0%
TCRA, June 2026: 38,558,459 of 116,952,295. Yas had 28.6%, Airtel 20.5%, Halotel 16.4% and TTCL 1.5%.
Users with IPv60.56%
APNIC Labs, 30 October 2026, against 4.87% across Eastern Africa. Each of the four large mobile networks is at 0.04% or less.
Longest sticky session6 h
The maximum, -time-21600, keeps one Tanzanian exit for six hours, and the minimum is 60 seconds. With no -sid- in the login, every request rotates.
Products
Proxy types for Tanzania and what they cost
| Proxy | In Tanzania | Session | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 25K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Tanzanian home and phone connections | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.49 → $1.69 per GB |
| Mobile | Vodacom, Yas, Airtel, Halotel and TTCL exits where the pool has them; the order page shows availability | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.99 → $2.19 per GB |
| ISP | Static IPs, one customer each; availability by country on the order page | Static for the rental | $4.00 per IP / month |
| Datacenter | Dedicated IPs, up to 10 Gbps; availability by country on the order page | Static | $2.00 per IP / month |
Why Tanzania
Shilling prices and a phone-first audience
Swahili in ad titles
Some Kupatana ads have Swahili titles, such as “TOYOTA IST INAUZWA”, and Kikuu offers Swahili beside English, French and Spanish. Run Google queries with hl=sw as well as hl=en.
Phones first, with Bing on desktops
In September 2026, 70.15% of Tanzanian page views came from phones, where Google handled 99.57% of searches (StatCounter). Across all devices Google had 96.55%; on desktops Bing took 12.27%. Checking rankings on both engines works as described under SERP proxies.
YouTube and TikTok top the data table
TCRA’s report for the quarter to June 2026 ranks social platforms by data used: YouTube 198,754 GB, TikTok 164,650 GB and Facebook 136,587 GB. For your own accounts on them, within each platform’s rules, see TikTok proxies.
Coverage
Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Dodoma and the other regions
The census of 22/23 August 2022 counted 61,741,120 people, 1,889,773 of them in Zanzibar. Dar es Salaam Region has 5,383,728 in five councils and, in TCRA’s count for June 2026, 21.53 million of the 117.0 million subscriptions. Logins choose Tanzania with -cc-tz; the regions and towns on offer are in the dashboard generator.
Dar es Salaam Region8.7%Dar es Salaam City 1,649,912 · Temeke 1,346,674 · Ubungo 1,086,912 · Kinondoni 982,328
Mwanza6%Mwanza City 594,834 · Ilemela 509,687
Morogoro5.2%Morogoro Municipal 471,409
Dodoma5%Dodoma City 765,179
Tanga4.2%Tanga City 393,429
Arusha3.8%Arusha City 617,631
Mbeya3.8%Mbeya City 541,603
Shinyanga3.6%Kahama Municipal 453,654
Zanzibar Urban/West1.4%Mjini Magharibi Region 893,169
Population: NBS, 2022 census, regions and councils; shares of the national total. Region names follow GeoNames, as lookups print them. Where available, exits also come from towns such as Moshi, Tabora, Iringa, Bukoba and Kigoma. MaxMind’s free database places 96.97% of Vodacom’s announced IPv4 space in Dar es Salaam (RIPEstat, 30 October 2026). Check an exit in our IP checker before you rely on its town.
Networks
Four mobile operators, then TTCL and Savanna Fibre
APNIC Labs puts 30.49% of Tanzanian internet users on Airtel’s network, 28.95% on Vodacom’s, 25.53% on Yas’s and 22.78% on Halotel’s, then 7.82% on TTCL and 5.53% on Savanna Fibre. By subscriptions TCRA ranks Vodacom first, with 33.0% in June 2026.
| Network | Registered as | ASN | Share of Tanzanian users | IPv6-capable | Mobile operator, share of subscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airtel | Airtel Tanzania | AS37133 | 30.49% | 0.04% | 20.5% |
| Vodacom | Vodacom Tanzania Ltd | AS36908 | 28.95% | 0.03% | 33.0% |
| Yas | MIC Tanzania Ltd | AS37035 | 25.53% | 0.04% | 28.6% |
| Halotel | Viettel Tanzania PLC | AS327885 | 22.78% | 0.03% | 16.4% |
| TTCL | Tanzania Telecommunications Co. Ltd | AS33765 | 7.82% | 0.06% | 1.5% |
| Savanna Fibre | Savanna Fibre (Tanzania) Ltd | AS329530 | 5.53% | 0.05% | No |
| Liquid | Liquid Telecommunications Ltd | AS30844 | 0.85% | 4.31% | No |
| Zuku | Wananchi Group (Kenya) Limited | AS15399 | 0.73% | 0.00% | No |
| Habari Node | Habari Node Public Limited | AS36909 | 0.71% | 0.05% | No |
| Net Solutions | Net Solutions Limited | AS328514 | 0.36% | 0.04% | No |
| Simbanet | Simbanet (T) Limited | AS37084 | 0.21% | 0.10% | No |
Users: APNIC Labs, 29 October 2026; its 68 Tanzanian rows add up to 137.66%, so treat each share as a separate estimate. An Airtel network registered in Rwanda, AS327708, is credited with another 10.43%, but its ranges geolocate to Malawi, Rwanda and other countries. Cloudflare and Starlink are left out. IPv6: APNIC, to 30 October 2026. Subscriptions: TCRA, June 2026. Network keys are a US, UK and German feature; for Tanzania, read the network from the ASN in a lookup.
Local targets
Tanzanian sites and the data on them
Classifieds
Ads by category and region, from Dar es Salaam to Pemba North, nearly all in TZS. Count listings and asking prices, not sellers’ numbers.
Jobs
4,608+ openings listed on 31 October 2026, each with employer, field and town.
Car imports
49th by estimated search traffic. Its Tanzania stock list filters by US-dollar price and has a total-price calculator.
Air fares
81st by estimated search traffic. Fares from Dar es Salaam, in TZS on domestic routes and in dollars abroad.
Online shop
Electronics, phones and fashion priced in TSh. Track prices and flash-sale discounts by category.
Forum
34th by estimated search traffic. Trending and new public threads, read signed out.
Foreign store
85th overall and second in Ahrefs’ Tanzania shopping list. Prices and shipping quoted to a buyer in Tanzania.
Tanzanian search
Results for gl=tz in Swahili and English, plus Bing for desktop queries. Checking rankings by location.
Ranks: Ahrefs Top, Tanzania, October 2026, by estimated organic search traffic. Stay on public pages, under each site’s terms.
For developers
A Vodacom exit, named from its ASN
With -cc-tz and -time-3600 in the login, each exit lasts an hour. If a lookup places the exit outside TZ, the script opens a new session; otherwise it turns the ASN into the brand people know and stops at the first exit on the network you name.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
# Country key only. Registries keep old or legal names: AS37035 "MIC TANZANIA LTD"
# is Yas (Tigo until November 2024), AS327885 "Viettel Tanzania PLC" is Halotel
BRAND = {"AS36908": "Vodacom", "AS37035": "Yas", "AS37133": "Airtel",
"AS327885": "Halotel", "AS33765": "TTCL", "AS329530": "Savanna Fibre"}
def tanzanian_exit(brand=None, tries=10):
for _ in range(tries):
sid = uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]
proxy = f"http://ap_a1b2c3-cc-tz-sid-{sid}-time-3600:PASS@{GATE}"
try:
geo = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=20).json()
except requests.RequestException:
continue # no answer: next session
if geo.get("country") != "TZ":
continue # some Airtel ranges geolocate to Rwanda, Malawi or Seychelles
name = BRAND.get(geo.get("org", "").split(" ")[0], geo.get("org"))
if brand is None or name == brand:
return proxy, geo, name # the same exit for an hour
return None, None, None
proxy, geo, name = tanzanian_exit("Vodacom")
if proxy:
print(geo["ip"], geo.get("city"), geo.get("region"), name)
# region reads e.g. "Dar es Salaam Region", "Mwanza" or "Zanzibar Urban/West"Pass "Yas" or "Halotel" for another network, or None for any Tanzanian exit. -time- runs from 60 to 21600 seconds, and without -sid- each request gets its own exit.
# one Tanzanian exit for 20 minutes
curl -x gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-tz-sid-dar01-time-1200:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonA Tanzanian quirk
A small fixed internet market led by mobile operators
TCRA counted 62,793,986 internet subscriptions in June 2026, and 62,203,801 of them were mobile. Fixed internet had 590,185, shared among 49 operators; Airtel’s 250,430 are more than twice Vodacom’s.
TCRA, Communications Sector Performance Report, quarter ending June 2026, Figure 1.9.1.3; Yas had 12,162. Individuals held 482,069 fixed subscriptions and companies 108,116. Smartphones numbered 31.34 million, a penetration of 44.74%, and 5G covered 34.18% of the population.
VPN rules, data protection and computer crime in Tanzania
Tanzania restricts VPN use under its online content rules. Regulation 16(2) of the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations, 2020 (GN No. 538) says a person shall not render, possess or distribute technology, a program, an application or any other related thing that allows or helps users to access prohibited content. TCRA cited it in a public notice of 13 October 2023, which said it had observed enormous access to prohibited content through VPNs. The notice told the public, individuals and companies for whom VPN use is indispensable to declare their VPN and all relevant information, including IP addresses, by 30 October 2023, and said TCRA would take regulatory action against unauthorised VPN use, including disabling access to such VPNs. Breaches carry a fine of at least TZS 5 million, at least twelve months in prison, or both (regulation 21). The amendments of 2025 and 2026 left regulation 16(2) in place, and TCRA’s website still lists “Submit VPN Information” among its links. Using AeonProxy from inside Tanzania as an undeclared VPN, or to reach content the regulations prohibit, is not supported.
Personal data falls under the Personal Data Protection Act, Chapter 44 (Act No. 11 of 2022): nobody may collect or process personal data without registering with the Personal Data Protection Commission as a data controller or processor (section 14). Section 4 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015 makes intentional and unlawful access to a computer system an offence. Keep sellers’ names and numbers out of what you store. Use on betting sites is not supported either.
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Tanzania proxy questions
A Tanzania proxy gives your requests an exit on a Tanzanian home or phone line, on networks such as Vodacom, Yas, Airtel or Halotel, and sites respond as they would to someone in Tanzania. It lets you read Kupatana and Kikuu prices in shillings, Air Tanzania fares from Dar es Salaam and google.co.tz results in Swahili and English.
25K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026. For mobile we publish no count: those exits run on Vodacom, Yas, Airtel, Halotel and TTCL where the pool has them, and the order page shows what is available. The residential figure changes as connections come and go.
A Tanzanian login picks the country, -cc-tz; for regions and towns, see what the dashboard generator offers, where available. You can also keep only exits whose region matches, since lookups print the GeoNames names, such as “Dar es Salaam Region” and “Zanzibar Urban/West”. Geolocation databases disagree at city level, so check each exit’s town in our IP checker.
Homes and phones on Airtel, Vodacom, Yas and Halotel, each credited by APNIC with more than 20% of Tanzanian users, and on TTCL, Savanna Fibre and smaller ISPs such as Habari Node and Simbanet. Carrier keys exist only for the US, the UK and Germany; on a Tanzanian exit the ASN in a lookup names the network, and the Python tab maps it to the brand.
Tigo Tanzania unveiled its new name, Yas, on 26 November 2024, and Tigo Pesa became Mixx by Yas (The Citizen). Its network, AS37035, is still registered as MIC TANZANIA LTD in APNIC’s data and as HONORA Tanzania PLC in PeeringDB. Halotel’s AS327885 shows up the same way, as Viettel Tanzania PLC.
Kupatana listings, Kikuu prices and Google results run on rotating residential exits. For app checks and mobile layouts pick mobile exits, which cost $0.50 more per GB; on Tanzanian phones, Android had 91.17% of traffic in September 2026. An ISP proxy suits accounts you run yourself within platform rules, since it keeps one static address for the whole rental; Tanzanian stock is shown on the order page.
Restrictions apply. Regulation 16(2) of the Online Content Regulations, 2020 bars rendering, possessing or distributing technology that allows or helps users to reach prohibited content, and in October 2023 TCRA told people and companies for whom VPN use is indispensable to declare their VPN and IP addresses, saying it would act against unauthorised use. Using AeonProxy from inside Tanzania as an undeclared VPN, or to reach prohibited content, is not supported. Collecting personal data also needs PDPC registration. Not legal advice.
A free proxy’s owner can read and store everything you send through it, logins included, and you would be trusting an operator you cannot identify. A genuine Tanzanian home or phone line looks up as AS37133 (Airtel), AS36908 (Vodacom), AS37035 (Yas) or AS327885 (Halotel); a data centre in that field means a server.
Enter four values in your browser extension, app or HTTP client: host gate.aeonproxy.com, port 7000, user ap_a1b2c3-cc-tz and your password. Adding -sid-dar01-time-1200 to the user name holds one exit for 20 minutes. For SOCKS5, see the docs; the free trial’s current terms are on the pricing page.
Mostly shillings. Kupatana, Kikuu and Air Tanzania’s domestic fares are in TZS. Air Tanzania prices international fares in dollars, and one property ad on Kupatana’s home page, for an apartment in Masaki, was in USD.