The Fibrecom network will improve several services provided on the network by the company’s partner internet service providers (ISP), mobile service providers and government entities.
Zesco public relations officer Henry Kapata said in an interview on Monday that mobile service providers are expected to have cost-effective, dependable and robust backbone communication carrier.
He said this will allow service providers to deploy latest mobile telephone services such as high quality uninterrupted voice calling, high speed broadband 3G internet and data.
Mr Kapata said the service will enable internet service companies to establish fast and reliable internet distribution in North-Western Province to allow people and commercial entities to access communication services.
“The province is now connected to fast broadband internet from anywhere in the country and the world through direct international links, via one of the many Fibrecom international gateway interconnection points at Katima Mulilo (Namibia), Kazungula (Botswana) and Nakonde (Tanzania).
“The network expansion also allows Zesco to provide improved services to customers, by connecting directly to the Zesco BIS [Business Information System] network, allowing superfast electricity purchases and real-time synchronisation of new customer service applications,” Mr Kapata said.
The Fibrecom arrangement will further enable institutions such as the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) in the province to issue motor vehicle road tax and fitness certificates promptly at the provincial offices.
Mr Kapata said this is because the provincial offices will be synchronised online with the Lusaka headquarters which houses the main computer systems.
“The extension of the network also brings a technical advantage to Fibrecom, by creating network rings that will allow redundancy to be achieved, further enhancing the availability and uptime of services across the whole Zesco Fibrecom network.
“As fibrecom continues to enlarge its footprint across the country as shown in the Zesco optic network 2016 schematic, it will bring with it technological benefits and enhancements to citizens that will be paramount in developing the country and enhancing information communication technologies development,” he said.
Can we be told the ratio of people that don’t own computers in northwestern to those that do because you will find that the former are in majority. Now you decide to extend broadband when you cannot simply guarantee electricity so will we be using broadband ya malasha uko. Pf are crazy chaps with no sense of priority.
Where does Zamtel fall in? I thought Zamtsl owes Zesco cables…
Very interesting………….Power supplier as Internet Provider?
No wonder Zesco has not been able to solve load shedding issues as their focus is on being #1 internet provider.
The idea to provide the Internet to NW province is great, but should it be Zesco?
Zesco is a Carrier not an ISP. Owing to distance, Telecom companies have not invested in infrastructure to far places like North Western and Zesco using the advantage of Pylons they have put Fibre optic cable and charge Telecom company to carry signals to those places. Read the article and understand:
“He said this will allow service providers to deploy latest mobile telephone services such as high quality uninterrupted voice calling, high speed broadband 3G internet and data.
Mr Kapata said the service will enable internet service companies to establish fast and reliable internet distribution in North-Western Province to allow people and commercial entities to access communication services.”
Here is another explanation. Zesco needs fibre optic cables to monitor and control its electrical network (they have a Central Control Centre in Lsk). They have excess capacity on their fibre optic network and instead of leaving it idle most of the time, they have made it available to ISPs. In their eternal daftness PF had tried to hive it off to Zamtel but I imagine that mad scheme did not happen.
ZESCO not ZAMTEL why?
Zesco is a Carrier not an ISP. Owing to distance, Telecom companies have not invested in infrastructure to far places like North Western and Zesco using the advantage of Pylons they have put Fibre optic cable and charge Telecom company to carry signals to those places. Read the article and understand:
“He said this will allow service providers to deploy latest mobile telephone services such as high quality uninterrupted voice calling, high speed broadband 3G internet and data.
Mr Kapata said the service will enable internet service companies to establish fast and reliable internet distribution in North-Western Province to allow people and commercial entities to access communication services.”
Ati latest technology like 3G, vinabwela mo chedwa. Your friends are thinking 5G now.