Telecommunications sector - Agency regulation and control of telecommunications (ARCT) Thursday announced the withdrawal of licenses for mobile telephony companies and Hits Telecom Comium Data for failing to honor all contractual clauses that of them have signed since 2008, we learn from official sources in Bujumbura. As specified by the Director General of ARCT, Salvator Nizigiyimana, though the two companies had 180 days to meet their obligations, including the payment of bonds and bank guarantees before the actual start of operations.
"Hits Telecom Burundi" was signed for the licensing of third generation GSM and other wireless Internet license, while Comium Data was only engaged for a license wireless Internet, according to the boss always the ARCT.
The Director General of the ARCT has especially criticized Hits Telecom had not honored its commitment to provide a bank guarantee contract of a million U.S. dollars before starting its activities in Burundi.
As the company Comium Data, she could not pay the ARCT guaranteed U.S. $ 250,000, or 10% of its investments, according to that account M.Nizigiyimana always take action against any operator of Technology Sector information and communication technologies (ICT) that will not be in order with the law.
There are, for the moment, four foreign companies vying for market Burundian mobile and Internet.
Users of ICT, for their part, complain of slow Internet connection and its cost is still high from 30 to 50 Burundian francs per minute.
Mobile telephony has experienced in recent years is spectacular penetration into the remotest corners of the country, to the delight of users despite the still high cost of mobile phone and charging units.
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