DODOMA: THE government has insisted that the ongoing Digital Tanzania Project (DTP) will be completed as per requirement of the contracts it signed with telecommunication companies, the House was informed here on Friday.
DTP seeks to increase access to high quality broadband internet services for government, businesses and citizens and to improve the government’s capacity to deliver digital public services.
The commitment to honour contractual obligations was given by Deputy Minister for Water, Engineer Kundo Mathew when responding to a main question posed by Mbulu Urban MP, Zacharia Issaay (CCM).
In his question, the legislator had wanted to know when the government would kick off its projects for putting up communication towers in the Nahesey, Gunyonda, Silaloda and Marang wards of Mbulu District in Manyara Region.
In response, Eng Mathew who was acting on behalf of the Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology said that the government via Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF) had implemented projects in five wards of Mbulu District and that they had been completed.
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“As of March 2024, the projects to put up communications towers had been completed and area residents in those wards are enjoying communication services,’’ he said.
On May 13, 2023, the government through UCSAF signed crucial contracts with telecom companies for extension of communication services in all rural areas countrywide. The contracts were signed between the government and five telecommunication companies, to implement a robust DTP which seeks to accelerate the country into the digital economy.
The telecom companies which signed contracts with the government include Vodacom Tanzania, Airtel Tanzania, TTCL, MIC (Tigo), and Viettel (Halotel). They are supposed to complete their projects before May 2025.
