December 3rd, 2013

The Minister of Information and Civic Education, Brown Mpinganjira has called on information and communications technology (ICT) players in the country to join hands with government in ensuring that the rural masses have access to internet services.

Mpinganjira said this in Zomba on Monday during the official commissioning ceremony of the Television White Spaces (TVWS) Pilot Project.

TVWS is a project which has been established by the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) and the University of Malawi (Chancellor College’s Physics department) with an aim of providing broadband connectivity to rural Malawi at affordable cost using the identified gaps (White Spaces) in…