Internet: ICTA Provides Operating Permit to Third Operator

11 years, 8 months ago - August 01, 2012

The Information and Communication Technology Authority (ICTA) has offered a license to Network Service Provider to the Belgian company Belgacom. This company will be authorized to sell access to bandwidth in Mauritius.

A third operator launches in the sales department access to bandwidth. This is the Belgian company Belgacom. The Information and Communication Technology Authority (ICTA) has indeed to offer a license for Network Service Provider to the Belgian company Belgacom. It is expected that this first telecommunications company in Belgium, which was established in 1879, began operations before the end of the year. The Department of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) is activated that Belgacom becomes operational as soon as possible.

This is in April that ICTA had decided to open access the bandwidth. The purpose of this initiative is to increase competition in this sector and to allow smaller operators to ingest this market, but also to " ensure that no entity can take a dominant position in the market. "

It Note that this opening of access to bandwidth is applauded in the ICT sector, we will remember that the Outsourcing and Telecommunications Association of Mauritius (OTAM) had made a request to do so since 2010 through a memorandum sent to Ministry of Finance prior to the 2011 budget.

This request was subsequently discussed in a meeting with the Minister of Finance in the wake of budget preparation, the measure had also been announced in the last budget presented by Finance Minister Xavier Luc Duval.

Text by lexpress.mu

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