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Backdrop. Closing the communication gap. BTC was the sole telecommunications provider till 1996. Parliament established a regulatory body in 1996. Botswana Telecommunications Authority issued mobile licenses (2) and ISP licenses in the following year.

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  1. Backdrop Closing the communication gap • BTC was the sole telecommunications provider till 1996. • Parliament established a regulatory body in 1996. • Botswana Telecommunications Authority issued mobile licenses (2) and ISP licenses in the following year. • The Act allowed the incumbent operator to compete in the competitive services by setting up a separate subsidiary.

  2. Backdropcontd. Closing the communication gap • BTC in compliance, set up a subsidiary called Botsnet to provide retail Internet services to the customers of Botswana and outside Botswana.

  3. BTC Internet Strategy Closing the communication gap • BTC , as a Telco also decided that IP as a technology should be a part of the BTC ‘s product portfolio. • To achieve the same, BTC now offers Corporate Internet Services with a focus on internet infrastructure provision (an ISP’s ISP)

  4. BTC’s Strengths Closing the communication gap • the best infrastructure available. • traffic can be carried all across Botswana on dedicated IP backbone either on ATM or Frame Relay • largest team of skilled telecom and IT professionals • Ability to negotiate attractive bandwidth rates and can consolidate traffic • can exchange traffic with other ISP’s and also look into offering future IP backbone services

  5. BTC ‘s Current and Future Network Closing the communication gap

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  8. Current BTC offerings Closing the communication gap • Point of Presence Services • Corporate Internet Access ( multiple grade of services) • Server farms • Bandwidth provision for ISP’s • DNS registration and maintenance • Online bandwidth monitoring BTC has quadrupled the capacity in the last 1 year and currently is at 6 Mb

  9. Future Internet Services Closing the communication gap • End to end managed internet access • Virtual Private Networks • Voice over IP • E-commerce gateway • Extension of server farms and bulk web hosting facilities • POP’s outside Botswana • Online DNS registration • Online billing

  10. Role of PTO – BTC’s Understanding Closing the communication gap • The technology is changing towards IP. • Telco’s have to follow the same trend. • Also it will jeopardize the existing revenue stream which are primarily from voice, shifting towards data in the last few years. • All voice and data infrastructure will be a dead weight as the cost of carrying the same is significantly less on IP, which reduces the barrier to entry for the new operators.

  11. Role of PTO – BTC’s Understanding contd.. Closing the communication gap • Lastly, the suppliers are converging and making a single platform to deliver all services resulting in high costs of maintaining existing different platforms.

  12. Botswana Issues Closing the communication gap • ISP’s can use any technologies to connect to the internet and create own infrastructure. • BTC can thus compete in this market and can offer any infrastructure services. • BTC also feels that the national resources are not being utilized prudently. • The ISP licensee is not allowed to use VOIP.

  13. Botswana Issues contd.. Closing the communication gap • Regulators are unable to control the same and normally doesn’t have resources to manage the same. • Implementation of inconsistent policies or policies devised without taking the incumbent operator point of view, are difficult to implement. • The internet market is not separate and has to be looked together with data and voice market.

  14. Botswana Issues contd.. Closing the communication gap • The ISP’s are up in arms against launching BTC’s internet company, Botsnet. • BTC ensured not to favor the ISP and kept an arm’s length distance with the same. • ISP’s still complained without proving the same. • The economic background changed when international ISP’s started looking at Botswana market, with an eye to provide all the data / IP / VAS services.

  15. Achievements Closing the communication gap • 6 Mbps internet bandwidth and increasing it further by 8 Mbps capacity. • increased efficiency on internet as most of it is directly to USA and not to SA. • competitive rates comparative to the neighboring countries. • BTC is looking towards setting up Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) facility to enable integration on a single platform.

  16. EDIcontd.. Closing the communication gap Closed Communities Service Providers SMTP/ MIME X.400 Fax

  17. Closing the communication gap Thank You

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