The objectives of the project are to: (a) ensure that efficiency and financial viability drive sector development; (b) eliminate the existing bottlenecks in the availability of telecommunication services to business subscribers in key areas of economic importance; and (c) optimize the availability and effectiveness of public and private resources invested in the sector. The project consists of: (a) the establishment of a market-oriented regulatory and policy framework and creation of an appropriate environment for private sector participation; (b) a program to build the Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation's (TPTC's) institutional capacity for improving project management, financial management and control, auditing procedures, materials management, and operations and maintenance; modernizing TPTC's accounting and financial systems and procedures as well as its billing and collection system; implementing priority computer systems and human resource development for TPTC; and to augment TPTC's implementation capacity through a performance contract with an external consultant to implement new works; and (c) a physical development program including rehabilitation of existing facilities; supply, installation and commissioning of new exchanges and matching external line plant; expansion of long distance transmission links; expansion of the junction network in Dar-Es-Saleem; and provision of telephone instruments, vehicles and ancillary equipment.
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Document Date
1993/04/02
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Document Type
Staff Appraisal Report
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Report Number
11539
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Volume No
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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Disclosure Date
2010/06/20
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Doc Name
Tanzania - Third Telecommunications Project
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Keywords
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Tanzania - Third Telecommunications Project (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/978971468116670991/Tanzania-Third-Telecommunications-Project