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Publish Date : 02-Dec-2014

Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) intends to expand its large-capacity internet service dubbed Internet Protocol Point of Presence (IP-PoP) in East and Southern Africa by providing speedy and reliable connections in the region. Now, the service has been extended to mobile phone operators in near countries of Uganda and Malawi, as per to TTCL’s Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, Peter Ngota. Ngota made the remarks on the sidelines of a two-day Capacity Africa meeting in Dar es Salaam lately an yearly event that brings together fixed-line and mobile wholesale operators from Africa and beyond.

The IP-PoP service to be functioned from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a brainchild of TTCL through a partnership with Italian firm Telecom Italy Sparkle for the delivery of IP services in South and East Africa through the IP-PoP. He explained, “It will provide cost effective, high quality and secure full protected global IP connectivity solutions to telecom operators, internet service providers (ISPs) and service providers that are connected to Dar es Salaam through major international submarine and terrestrial cable systems”.

Ngota said that the service will also bring customers closer to content providers by increasing the speed of accessibility from one point to another. Ngota requested, “It is high time that wholesale customers, regional operators as well as internet service providers utilized opportunities provided by IP-PoP to transform their business operations”. TTCL is in addition the host and operator of the National ICT Broadband Backbone which connects Tanzania to the rest of the world through the Submarine Fibre Optic Network which is cheaper and consistent compared to satellite connections.

The broadband backbone has in addition been expanded to nine boarder points connecting neighboring countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Director of Six Telecoms, Rashid Shamte, highly praised the government for the investments it has made in the ICT sector.
Shamte said, “We currently run a service dubbed ‘metro-network’ which operates in Dar es Salaam but through the broadband backbone we will be able to extend our operations to other regions and boost the market”. Shamte said that he was also happy that the Capacity Africa 2014 meeting which is being attended by over 460 participants, exhibitors and ICT experts will come up with suitable solutions for improving the sector in Tanzania and Africa as a whole.

Moreover, Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) is the oldest and largest fixed line telecommunications company in Tanzania. The company comes 4th from the previous Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation in 1993. TTCL was wholly owned by the Government of Tanzania until the partial privatization of the company on February 23, 2001.

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