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Under the Tanzanian government’s special drive to digitalise the country, the government intends to connect one million people through super-speed Last-Mile Internet Connectivity by the year 2027. This is to improve the delivery of social-economic services to the people.
Under the Tanzanian government’s special drive to digitalise the country, the government intends to connect one million people through super-speed Last-Mile Internet Connectivity by the year 2027. This is to improve the delivery of social-economic services to the people.
Speaking at the launch event of the 41st Administrative Council of the Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) in Arusha, Deputy Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology Engineer Kundo Mathew told the delegates that the move was under a special government initiative. The success in the propagation of digital infrastructure in the rural parts of the country follows a deliberate move by the government under President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan, who released 21bn/- last year for the accomplishment of the Postcode System, a key infrastructure in Postal Services.
The deputy minister said that success realised in the establishment of the Postcode and Physical Addressing System in Tanzania has resulted in the building of Fibre to Home backed by reliable Submarine Optic Cables, including one of the highest capacities with 160 Terabits that President Samia launched last year. People in Tanzania now cherish getting various social and economic services within a short time at high speed and in super quality, contrary to the past when they had to walk long distances and spend hours in long queues before getting a service.
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The government of Tanzania has been following with keen interest the affairs of the Pan African Postal Union. For a long time, PAPU has been facing a lot of challenges including inadequate human capacity to perform duties optimally. The engineer insisted that Tanzania as a member of PAPU will support the General Secretariat and the entire Union in its human resource capacitation endeavours as well as assist it financially in line with the Host Agreement to ensure that it fulfils its mandate in Africa.
