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| Tuesday,September 05,2006 Posted: 16:26 BJT(0826 GMT) Xinhua |
The Zimbabwe Telecommunications 2006 Conference will start on Wednesday at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) in pursuit of efforts to reform and develop the telecommunications sector.
The objective of the conference is to bring to the fore urgent issues of interest and concern to telecommunications regulators, operators, service providers, telephone users and stakeholders, official with the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said on Tuesday.
Specialist exhibition and conference organizer USK International is hosting the exhibition, which was launched in 1996 at a time of strained relations between the government and the private sector over the deregulation of the telecommunications sector, then monopolized by the Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.
USK International managing director Nhlanhla Masuku said the conference provides the much needed forum for dialogue among all key stakeholders in the sector. Masuku said an exhibitors' forum would form part of the conference program to facilitate dialogue between technology suppliers and key players in the telecoms sector. Zimbabwe has one fixed line telephone operator (TelOne) and three mobile phone networks, namely, NetOne, Econet and Telecel.
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