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Liquid managing director Mr Wellington Makamure said it was a huge opportunity for the company to participate in the world’s biggest tourism showcase.
“We are grateful to the Ministry of Transport, Information and Infrastructural Development to accord us the opportunity to provide service to the world’s biggest tourism event.
“We have since connected all major hotels and lodges in Victoria Falls via fibre in preparation for the General Assembly,” he said.
Mr Makamure said there was also Wi-Fi coverage at all hotels and lodges in Victoria Falls.
Liquid Telecom is currently rolling out fibre optic network in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia.
Last year the company introduced the fibre to home (FTH) using a Gigabit Passive Optical Network technology which was a service aimed at connecting every single household on the fibre network.
Makamure said to date the service had been rolled out in Borrowdale Brooke, Milton Park, Belgravia, Kensington, Avondale and parts of the Central Business District and the Avenues.
“We started with the low density suburbs so that we could easily recover our capital,” he said.
In high density residential areas, he said they had set up WI-Fi hot spots in some areas to enable the whole country to access internet connectivity.
Mr Makamure said the telecommunication sector had intense competition which required being innovative to come up with new products.
“Competition is very healthy for every sector, thus for us we say it keeps us going,’ he said.
He added that the company was also currently upgrading its optic fibre capacity to 30 Gigabit up from 10 Gigabit in a programme which is set to be complete by 30 September this year.
Liquid Telecom has built Africa’s largest fibre network, which runs from the north of Uganda to Cape Town. It also connects Africa to rest the of world.
In total, its fibre network spans over 13 000km across 11 countries which include Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, South Africa as well as the United Kingdom and Mauritius.
Telecommunications and Internet data services represent one of the fastest growth sectors in African economics largely as a result of technology revolution that only became pronounced in the 1990s. — New Ziana.
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