ZAMTEL rolling out fibre-optic backbone

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The Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited (ZAMTEL) has announced that it has started its plans of rolling out a metropolitan optical fibre network which will provide new broadband services to Capital Lusaka's corporate customers.

A statement from the company said with fibre-optic backbone, ZAMTEL shall have the ability to deliver multimedia communications and content to a global constituency for Zambian goods and services.

“This technology will make available information, content, services and connectivity on a global scale, while allowing for many different methods of user access,” says the statement posted on its website.

The Zambian telecommunication giant says in order to remain competitive; it intends to continue playing a dominant role in the ICT industry by identifying and fully exploiting strategic opportunities that exist globally.

“It is within this context that ZAMTEL has adopted a strategic ICT management perspective in order to exploit the techno-economic benefits of integrating into the global information economy,” the company says.

Installation to customer premises has already started and it has services that include high-speed internet, high-speed point-to-point data services and point to multi-point data services as well as high-speed local area networks.

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Gregory Gondwe is a Malawian journalist who has bagged close to fifteen years of working experience who started writing in 1993. He is currently regional editor and bureau chief for Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS). Gregory is also a media consultant assisting several international journalists pursuing assignments in Malawi. He holds a Diploma of Journalism and an Intermediate Certificate in Journalism among other media-related certificates. He can be contacted on gregorygondwe@gmail.com.

[13 Aug 2008 10:27]