Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:06:18 +0000
By Siabana Kelvin
GOVERNMENT says it fully supports the efforts by the private sector at supplementing its goals in delivering access to broadband services to the Zambian people.
Transport and Communications minister, Brian Mushimba, said it was the desire of Government that both rural and urban areas have adequate access to ICT services through broadband services from the private sector.
Mr Mushimba was speaking in Kitwe during the launch of the internet service 4G Lite Speed countrywide by CEC Liquid Telecommunications Limited.
The minister said the launch of the 4G Lite Speed by CEC Liquid Telecommunications demonstrated the way businesses were evolving in the country and bringing ICT solutions that benefited the Zambian people.
“As a Government we recognize that ICT is the cornerstone of almost every aspect of doing business in the Country,” he said.
Mr Mushimba commended CEC Liquid Telecommunications Limited for the product launch that will cover all the 10 provinces in the country.
And Copperbelt Energy Corporation PLC (CEC) acting managing director Aaron Botha said CEC Liquid Telecoms had realised that in a highly competitive market and evolving industry the firm was operating in, an organization without innovation could not command the market.
Mr Botha said in a speech read on his behalf by Mr Andrew Kapula that the product would add value to the revolution of internet use in Zambia.
He said the company’s lite speed network was the first network on the African continent fully supporting and operating native internet protocol version 6(IPv6) which was the most recent version of internet protocol (IP).
