Helios Towers Chief Executive Officer, Norman Moyo (L) addressing participants the official launching of Helios In Building Solution in Dar es Salaam at the weekend. With him are some of Helios Tanzania staff members.
Helios Towers Chief Executive Officer, Norman Moyo (R) exchanging ideas with OGM Consultancy Principal Architect, Oswald Modu (L) during the official launching of Helios In Building Solution in Dar es Salaam at the weekend. Lookingt on is AWD Ltd MD, Jamaal Awadh.
Some of invitees exchanging views during the launching event.
By Damas Makangale, MOblog Tanzania
THE Telecoms Infrastructure Company in Tanzania, Helios Towers has inaugurated the In-Building Solutions (IBS) to strength and magnifying telecommunication networking in the country.
Speaking during the launching of the operation at Kilimanjaro Hyatt Regency hotel in Dar es Salaam recently, Helios Towers, Chief Executive Officer, Norman Moyo said the new services would ensure good and reliable telecoms networking in both big and small buildings as well as strong telecoms road across the country.
Moyo said the launching of In- Building Solution it is an initiative of corporate such as Helios Towers which contribute largely in broadening the scope of the industry and enhancing basic communication services in the region.
He added they realize the importance of telecommunications in spurning development in Tanzania and Africa as a whole and it is therefore of due credence that Tanzanian have seen significant growth and continues progress in telecommunication sector with newer and more promising avenues opening up.
“As the sector mature there is a clear mandate to improve on the breadth and quality of these services; namely voice and data services. Tanzania has seen wide proliferation of next generation technologies like 3G and 4G services,” said Mr Moyo.
He went on to say that there is a significant investment in infrastructure particularly in residential housing and commercial building and Tanzania is at the early stages of building a boom.
“Despite we are new but we are very optimistic that we will provide high quality service and we are going to prove it in the existing market due to the fact that we have enough capital, strong technical team with qualified experience staff,” he clarified.
Mr Moyo said it has been discovered that the new buildings present new challenges to telecommunications services, particularly in service of delivery within the buildings. The IBS service helps address this challenge whilst extending benefits to a number of stake holders.
Commenting about the benefit of IBS to mobile operators and ISPs, Mr Moyo underscored that the IBS platform is a bridge for firm’s to reach its customers. “Fortunately the solution supports all the mobile technologies and all the operators so nobody is left out. I have been told that the average investment made by Helios Towers has been USD $100,000 per building,” he added.
On his part, Helios Towers Deputy Director Network Operations Joseph Mgulo said that this service in Tanzania would bring great changes in telecoms competition market where all telecoms companies will be able to provide high quality services.
He added that the operation has been researched and approved that is in high quality in this industry and has got no any effects to consumers.