At a media briefing held on Wednesday in the capital, Windhoek, MTC’s Chief Human Capital and Corporate Affairs Officer, Tim Ekandjo said the move is aimed at delivering mobile broadband accessibility in the main towns, but also to introduce 3G Internet access in peri-urban and rural areas.
“This development will increase the usage of 3G in peri-urban and rural Namibia covering 64 percent of the population,” he added.
According to Ekandjo, MTC, is currently working closely with international vendors to introduce subsidised smartphones which the rural community can afford.
According to Ekandjo, MTC’s Board of Directors has committed significant investments to the project, however MTC has not yet received the spectrum because CRAN has not made a decision to allocate the additional spectrum.
Currently MTC covers 98 percent of the population of nearly 2 million people with more than 650 base stations and repeaters and offers a dual 900/1800MHZ. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
