Thursday, 28 March 2024


PT asks the Timorese Government to sensitize Indonesia regarding to submarine cable

The CEO of PT Zeinal Bava, asks the Timorese Government to be more involved in persuading Indonesia to provide a submarine cable connection in order to offer faster and cheaper Internet to East Timor.

"We ask for a combination of wider efforts, not only from Portugal Telecom [PT] and Timor Telecom, but also support within the government, because it is a strategic imperative for Timor," he said.

Zeinal Bava has been in Dili for a business trip, to celebrate the Timor Telecom´s 500,000 customers, and said that the company owned by PT "is more than 50 percent timorese" and the proposals commitments during 2009 were all achieved.

"When we look in terms of TT it must be remembered that it is a timorese company as well.”

Besides the entire support of Timor-Leste State and local entrepreneurs, there is also an indirect support of Fundação São José (Diocese of Baucau). Its success comes not only from the contribution of operational project that PT did, but also from the timorese investment.

As he explained to journalists, the increase of debt, improving service quality and reducing Internet prices, essential to popularize the information in Timor-Leste, it is vital the submarine cable, instead of using only the satellite.
 

The Portuguese athletes won in all categories in "RunBike Dili” contest, which was played under intense heat and humidity in the high topography of East Timor.

Nelson Silva was the outstanding winner of the mountain (premium Timor Telecom), managing to reach the first place in the individual ranking, followed by fellow Portuguese Carlos Cardoso. Costa Jacinto, among the Timorese athletes, was the one with the best performance, ranked third in the individual overall.

In ladies category, also the Portuguese Mónica Vieira was the winner, placing second Krista Harsha from New Zealand and Mirth Hiemitra from USA, in the third position. Regarding to tag-team, GNR group got more points, followed by the team of the Defence Force of Timor-Leste (F-FDTL).

Altogether 140 athletes competed in 12 different nationalities, with about 19 kilometers on bike, mostly mountain routes with steep slopes, heat and high humidity, and little more than eight kilometer race walk along the sea.

A the end, Nelson Silva was satisfied: "I enjoyed the race, despite the difficulties on the first step. "






 

The Portugal Telecom´s CEO, Zeinal Bava, met on 29 November with the President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste to ensure that Timor Telecom (TT) will invest to provide the country with reference to telecommunications area in the region.

"I came mainly to reaffirm the commitment of Timor Telecom and Portugal Telecom as a strategic shareholder, that we will continue to invest, to enable East Timor with the most competitive infrastructure in the region concerning to telecommunications" said Zeinal Bava to Lusa agency, at the end of audience with the President.

According to the CEO, the one day trip that brought him to Timor-Leste has also "confirmed the development and progress that Timor Telecom has done. TT has invested heavily in this market," about 29 percent of revenues.

"We have increased significantly 2G mobile coverage and 86 percent of the Timorese population has access to mobile phone, with a multiplicity of rates." said.

Considering Timor Telecom "a strategic asset", Zeinal recalled that, despite East Timor's economy improvement, " when Timor had a lack of investment, PT and a group of local partners took the initiative and risks, when, at that time, other companies did not consider the interesting and attractive market. "

Timor Telecom “is an excellent example of a partnership with local investors. PT has a significant stake in this partnership, which brings management in telecommunications field, but this management is based on a clear commitment that we made on Timorese resources. Most of our staff is local and we are committed in their training and to be led by people of Timor, "he said.

According to the press release, by the end of this year, 7.5 percent of the Timorese population will have Internet access (about 80 000 users), and aim to double this figure for 2011.

"At the end of 2011 we estimate that in 15 percent of the population, East Timor will be one of the countries of greatest penetration in the region, compared with 13.5 of the Fiji Islands or 8.7 percent of Indonesia, which is very important because the Internet opens the doors of knowledge and will increase the level of education and training of people, "he said.

In September www.sapo.tl portal was launched for the first time in a bilingual version (Tetum and Portuguese), "to promote the use of Internet and broadband boost with multimedia content sites, while also helping to promote the consolidation of Portuguese , as a national language in East Timor. "

In the mobile area, 40 percent of the population uses the services provided by Timor Telecom (33 percent in 2009), and the company is expecting to reach 470,000 customers at the end of the year and coverage in all 13 district capitals, it means 86 percent of the population.
 

Timor Telecom (TT) has won the tender for Timor-Leste National Connectivity Project (NCP), a more than 1,5 million dollar business, which will connect public services in the several districts of the country to the Internet, so has announced the company today.


TT, a company participated by Portugal Telecom, has submitted a bid of USD 1,699,000 (around EUR 1,243,570), which was the lowest of the second phase of the NCPII competition and the best tender as for technical solutions.

The conforming agreement was signed by TT’s CEO Luís Capitão Amaro and the Minister of Infrastructure, Pedro Lay, on the 16th of the current month. According to the company, the service should be operating in January 2011.

NCP first project competition (the National Connectivity Project), which TT, competing with DataBridge and Telkom Indonesia, had also made a bid for, had been won by the Indonesian telecommunication company.

In order to widen Internet coverage in the districts and improve the system, Timorese Government launched a new NCP, planned in two phases, both won by Timor Telecom.

As a result of the new competition, which aims at the creation of a convergent data, voice and video network for the Government, in all district capitals, Timor Telecom is now responsible for ensuring Internet access and connectivity, taking it over from Telkom Indonesia.

TT’s proposal is not only to replace the service in the districts included in NCPI but also to extend the network to Lautem (Los Palos), Viqueque, Manatuto, Aileu, Same, Ainaro and Suai districts, as well as to offer new internet and intranet services.

With NCP, Timor-Leste Government aims at a special network which links all Government institutions, departments and schools, throughout the whole country.

The implementation of NCPII comprises procurement and installation of hardware and software, national Internet backbone connectivity (NIBC), district-level distribution networks (DLDN) and service-level agreement (SLA).

 

On 28th October 2010, Mr. Tomas Cabral, Director of STAE, met with the Chief Executive Officer of Timor Telecom, Eng. Manuel Manuel Capitão Amaro and the Communication and Public Relations Adviser, Mr. Manuel Cárceres da Costa, at the Timor Telecom HQ, in order to proceed with the signing of the addendum to the protocol of cooperation signed on August 1st, 2009.


The addendum provides support in terms of telecommunications, expressed by Timor Telecom STAE since the election of Suco Chiefs, took place on October 9th, 2009.

At the signing ceremony, the managing director of Timor Telecom stressed that STAE can count on the continued support of Timor Telecom. He also mentioned, that “Timor Telecom hopes to give good expectations for the country and to the Timorese government.”

STAE Director Mr. Tomas Cabral stressed the importance of collaboration between STAE and Timor Telecom, noting that STAE hopes to have the support of Timor Telecom in the preparation and implementation of the general elections that will occur in Timor-Leste in the year 2012.

The strengthened cooperation between the two institutions, will allow access to information related to STAE by the political parties and the community in general.

As a the result of this meeting it was expressed by Timor Telecom's Manager Director that the company is prepared to give all necessary support for the general elections of 2012.

 
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