All villages in Newala District to access communication services by 2025
DODOMA: DEPUTY Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology, Engineer Maryprisca Mahundi has assured the august House that all villages in Newala district, Mtwara Region will have access to communication services.
She made the assurance as she responded to a question asked by Newala Rural MP, Maimuna Mtanda (CCM) who had raised suspicions over lack of communication services in most villages of her constituency.
But Eng Mahundi said that through the Tanzania Digital Project (DTP), before the end of the next financial year, all villages will have been connected.
The major objective of the DTP project is to increase access to high quality internet services for government and citizens and to improve the government’s capacity to deliver digital public services.
In this regard, the Project is geared towards accelerating the digital economy in the country.
During the official launching of the project, in May last year, President Samia Suluhu Hassan warned Local Government Authorities and Public Entities providing legal permits for installing communication towers to get rid of bureaucracy.
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She issued the directive after witnessing the official signing ceremony of crucial contracts for extension of communication services in rural areas.
The contracts were signed between the Ministry of Information, Communication and Information Technology and five telecommunication companies.
The telecom companies which signed contracts with the government include Vodacom Tanzania, Airtel Tanzania, TTCL, MIC (Tigo), and Viettel (Halotel).
The contractors are upon completion of the project expected to put up 758 communication towers in the mainland Tanzania as well as upgrading 304 others to enable the towers which now offer 2G internet speed go up to 3G, 4G or even more.
In parliament yesterday, the deputy minister said that already there were over 600 communication towers as the 18-month project continues running at a supersonic speed.
