By CHRISTOPHER MAJALIWA
The government has obtained
45bn/- from World Bank to facilitate Universal Communication Access Fund
(UCAF), the House was told on Friday.
The Deputy Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Mr January Makamba
UCAF was introduced to subsidize
telecommunication companies in course of providing services in areas
which were considered to have less business activities.
The Deputy Minister for
Communication, Science and Technology Mr January Makamba said that there
were some areas in the country with limited telecom services due to the
fact that the companies were profit-oriented, thus before supplying the
service they had to be satisfied with market stability.
However, he said that the
government having seen how important it was to provide the services to
all the people, did all it could to liaise with telecom companies
through UCAF to ensure that all areas across the country were supplied
with the services. Mr Makamba was responding to a question raised by
John Chiligati (Manyoni East-CCM), who wanted to know the reason as to
why many areas in the country including some areas in his constituency
went without telecommunication services.
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