China International Telecommunication Construction Corporation
(CITCC) has said it will continue working with foreign customers and local
partners to establish long-term and stable relations.
CITCC
Deputy Director Haijun Jiang said in an interview with this paper early this
week that the move would enable the company to build a stable information
platform for communication between China and other countries, including
Tanzania.
“We
want to enhance cordial working relations with all countries we are operating
in and extend more cooperation with others,” he said, adding that they
currently boast business relations with more than 60 multinational corporations
in 35 countries worldwide.
“We are
all over the world providing customers, among them telecommunication operators,
government organisations, manufacturers of a wide range of equipment as well as
various other enterprises,” explained the CITCC executive.
Other
services provided by the firm include telecommunication network construction,
business process outsourcing, information and communication technology (ICT)
system integration, telecommunication operation management consulting and
training.
The
company has so far undertaken several projects in several countries in such
areas as telecommunication construction and cooperation in enhancing capacity
building for various enterprises.
By the
latest count, these countries were Tanzania, Mali, Zambia, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Ethiopia and
Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Benin Ghana,
Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.
The
company’s branch in Tanzania was established in 2007 and has had a successful
time.
It is
entering the third phase of its operations, one of its undertakings being a
national broadband backbone infrastructure project.
National
backbone transmission network projects cover 21 regions in Tanzania, and the
company is determined to implement more elsewhere and thus be involved in three
loops covering regional as well as international links.
It is
anticipated that Tanzania will use the completed backbone network in part to
enhance Internet applications and therefore meet the interconnection needs of
government agencies, schools, enterprises and a wide range of public
institutions.
The
government is keen on uniting existing telecom operators of telecom, power,
natural gas and mobile communication under a drive led by the Communication,
Science and Technology ministry.
The aim
is to boost and optimise the use of existing telecommunication line and
construct backbone transmission networks until the entire country is covered.
More
than 100 Chinese workers and at least 9,000 others, including some 1,000
Tanzanians, are employed indirectly in the construction of fibre optic cables.
CITCC
is a subsidiary company of China Telecom Group and is a leader in the provision
of technology used in the integration of telecommunication systems. It is
strong in engineering, designs, consultancy and communication network
integration, with import and export trade as an auxiliary service.