BY MISGANAW ASNAKE
ADDIS ABABA- Ethio telecom signed a three-year contractual agreement with five Virtual Internet Service Provider partners (vISP).
The partners that signed the agreement are WebSprix IT Solutions PLC, VivaTech Trading PLC, Zergaw ISP, Skynet IT Solution PLC and Dulle Business Group.
Briefing the media at signing ceremony yesterday, Ethio telecom CEO Frehiwot Tamiru said, based on the contractual agreement; our new partners will exclusively provide fixed broadband internet service and are believed to broadly avail the service to customers at large and contribute to the overall efforts of the nation to realize digital transformation strategy.
“Based on the contract, the five firms would exclusively purchase the fixed bandwidth internet service from Ethio telecom and provide high bandwidth internet service to the customers across the country for the coming three consecutive years.
Thus, customers will have more options to get fixed broadband internet services from these five partner organizations in addition to Ethio telecom’s sales centres.”
Moreover, the partners have been able to avail fixed broadband internet service to 20,700 customers so far while Ethio telecom’s subscribers have reached 64 million. This helps to make sure that the fixed broadband internet services is accessible across the nation and increase the number of users to 3 million by the end of 2026, she said.
She also stated that, the company’s continuous efforts to expand and meet the mobile internet penetration digital transformation plan of the nation, partners will play paramount roles in making accessible fixed broadband internet service. As has been the backbone of the economy of the nation, fixed broadband internet service has also multiple roles to play in our society particularly in creating favorable business environment.
It also helps the public institutions like health, education, digital marketing, private organizations and social interaction to digitalize their working system to provide efficient service to their customers, she stressed.
The Ethiopian Herald April 12/2022
