Page 19 - issue 28 2020

News 19

BTC Infrastructure and Dynamic

Capabilities Can Lead National

Digitisation

• Telco-giant national footprint a competitive strategic asset
• Data Centre, VSAT, more than 400 LTE express new level of value and confidence

by : BTC

With BTC celebrating 40 years of progress under the mantra
‘Ke ya rona rotlhe’ one of its greatest accomplishment is
a dynamic network which envelopes over 580,000 km2
of our vast republic. Furthermore, coupled with more
than 400 LTE sites, unique inventions in VSAT, state of
the art Data Centre and strategic partnership for cloud
technologies with Microsoft, the telco giant is well set to
drive the national digitization strategy.
The anchor to socio- economic development and the route
away from diamonds is not as far as we assume. With
its over Two million population, Botswana can capitalize
on BTC existing digital infrastructure and international
partnerships to drive the next chapter and new horizons of
its economic diversification strategy towards a knowledge-
based economy.
BTC has evolved from offering analogue microwave links to
fixed telephony to become a converged telecommunications
operator offering fixed (voice and data), mobile (voice and
data) and broadband services to every Motswana on our
vast 581,730 square kilometers of land.
The investments that have gone into the operator’s network
and digital transformation are not only for the benefit its
Nkosi Mwaba client base and shareholders. They are a strategic national
Ninenteen21 asset upon which Botswana’s next value frontier should be
An export expert premised.
BTC has demonstrated its agility by listing on the Botswana
Stock Exchange, a watershed moment in economic
inclusion that brought over 50 thousand Batswana into
BTC ownership. Pushing over a billion in revenues, a clean
debt free balance sheet and having the highest yield on the
local bourse, BTC is driving digital inclusion for all. Arguably

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