Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 GOVERNMENT’S decision to proceed with the second phase of the multi-million Kwacha Communications Towers Project with the same contractor given the deficiencies of the first phase is worrying, says the Consumer Unity Trust Society (CUTS). CUTS questioned how the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) which confirmed the shortcomings in the first phase of the project, awarded the contract to the same contractor when the first challenges had not been corrected. CUTS assistant programme officer Leah Phiri said the civil society organisation observed that the tender document given by ZICTA instructed the contracted vendor to ensure that, among other things, the installed radio access equipment on the erected towers provided rural macro-coverage of at least 5km in radius. However, findings by CUTS under a social accountability campaign revealed that a number of towers that had been put up fell short of meeting the 5km macro-coverage radius requirement as […]
