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MTC invests $40 million in it’s network infrastructure (Namibia)

  • July 28th, 2008
  • 1:16 pm

MTC, Namibia’s largest cellco, has invested nearly USD40 million (NAD300 million) in its network infrastructure in the year to date, in projects including raising SMS capacity, the deployment of a transmission backbone across several areas of the country and the replacement of central switching equipment with next generation architecture.

The company’s fibre-optic transmission network was extended in areas including the capital Windhoek, coastal regions and in the north, ending MTC’s long-standing reliance on renting backbone capacity from Telecom Namibia. The fibre project was implemented by Nera and Ericsson at a cost of NAD76 million this year. MTC also upgraded its radio access network and wireless broadband service capabilities, in partnership with Nokia Siemens Network and Motorola, at a cost of NAD88 million. MTC’s investments over the last 13 years total NAD1.6 billion.

   

Telecom Namibia expands network

  • July 13th, 2007
  • 7:21 am

Telecom Namibia revealed yesterday that it has expanded its CDMA WiLL service to nine more towns and settlements. The offering, branded ‘Switch’, was launched in Windhoek in November 2006 and was followed by similar launches in Oshakati, Omuthiya, Okahao, Ombalantu, Ohangwena, Oluno, Ongwediva, Eenhana, Omundaungilo, Ondobe, Ondangwa, Otjiwarongo, Tsumeb, Windhoek, Okahandja, Henties Bay, Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Keetmanshoop. The latest localities to receive coverage are Rehoboth, Mariental, Opuwo, Grootfontein, Rundu, Katima Mulilo, Okakarara, Oshivelo and Onesi. Oiva Angula, a spokesman for Telecom Namibia said further rollout of the network to replace obsolete technologies was on the cards for 2007 and beyond.

 

   

BEE day: Telecom Namibia to launch procurement policy

  • June 5th, 2007
  • 1:51 pm

Fixed line monopoly operator Telecom Namibia has announced that it will officially launch its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Procurement Policy at the NamPower Convention Centre in Windhoek on 13 June 2007. The BEE policy, aimed at the company’s supplier base, takes a proactive approach to redressing economic imbalances in the country. The policy includes a rating system that will be used to evaluate potential suppliers, with BEE measures making up 15% of the scores. The company’s managing director Frans Ndoroma said: ‘Telecom Namibia is committed to…BEE that is broad-based, the most difficult, yet the most rewarding form of such empowerment possible…Properly managed, the BEE philosophy holds the promise of strengthening the social fabric by giving vastly greater numbers of people a stake in the economy.’ He added that Telecom Namibia looks forward to forging mutually beneficial business relations with all those companies that share its vision. TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database notes that Telecom Namibia is owned by state holding company Namibia Post and Telecommunications Holdings (NPTH), which also owns a 66% stake in the country’s largest mobile operator Mobile Telecommunications (MTC); the government plans to complete the sale of a 15% stake in MTC to local BEE groups this year.