Harare (New Ziana) –The government on Friday commended landline services provider, TelOne for continuously introducing ICT based innovations that will help government achieve its vision 2030.
Government is targeting to transform the country into an upper middle income economy by 2030 and ICTs are expected to play a pivotal role in this vision.
Officially launching TelOne’s newest innovation, a vehicle tracking system called TelTrack, Information, Communication Technology Postal and Courier Sevices Minister Jenfan Muswere commended TelOne for being innovative.
“On behalf of the Government, the Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services, has been tasked to ensure Zimbabwe’s digital economy awakens and the nation is empowered to make data-driven decisions,” he said.
“We have been given a specific mandate to assist in the digitisation of the government and the nation as a whole. This has seen us particularly this year heightening this pursuit through accelerating and ensuring conclusion of many projects that are being implemented by the different entities under our Ministry.”
Muswere said TelOne has been able to deliver several such projects under the Government’s 100 Day Project Management model.
“It is products like TelTrack that responds directly to the call to a Digital Zimbabwe which is a key priority under Government’s Vision 2030,” he said.
“This system comes at an opportune time where dynamics in the market continue to evolve and has since proven its capability in high tech fleet management; buoyed on the back of TelOne’s robust telecommunications infrastructure particularly the National Operations Centre, which we launched a few months ago. The ability by TelOne to harness the huge investment made through deployment of new technology in their network through embracing Internet of Things as we have seen today is most commendable.”
“Most pleasing with this launch is the evidence that TelOne is on a serious drive to diversify its business portfolio by coming up with Value Added Services solutions which ride on their current products and services offering. Instead of just offering Voice and Data services, products like TelTrack demonstrate that there is a great future for TelOne and the business in Zimbabwe. Having recently celebrated TelOne’s return to profitability with a $142 million operating profit announced at their AGM last month, I am very confident that with such initiatives as Teltrack, this financial performance position can be accelerated,” Muswere added.
TelOne managing Director Chipo Mtasa said: “As TelOne we have moved from just being the providers of voice and data services to taking an active role in transforming our community through technology solutions in line with our Vision of creating a Digitally enabled society by 2023. A digitally enabled community not only requires access to connectivity but also to digital products that make use of the wide broadband network that we have deployed in the last few years and continue to improve on.”
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