One Network Area in East Africa

• Tác giả: Christopher Kemei
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 916.7 Geography of and travel in Africa
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312055
• Chủ đề: 1. cross-border communications; 2. regional communications network; 3. regional integration; 4. regional trade; 5. telecommunications

Tóm tắt

Communications networks underpin regional and global trade. This is particularly true in East Africa where mobile phones are plentiful but postal services are virtually non-existent and crossborder road and railway links are subject to the vagaries of adverse environmental conditions. The countries of the East African Community (EAC) made a joint commitment in 2014 to create one network area (ONA) for the five economies of the EAC (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda), with the benefits also being extended to South Sudan. Specifically, for cross-border traffic originating in those countries, rates have been capped, mobile roaming charges eliminated and SIIT abolished.