en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, Telecom Namibia, the state-owned telecommunications operator, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Demshi Investment Holdings, a local open-access fiber network company. The partnership will leverage Demshi's existing fiber infrastructure to accelerate broadband service deployment, enabling residential and business customers to access high-speed internet.
Under the agreement, Telecom Namibia will lease Demshi's open-access fiber network to offer fiber-based internet packages to users, while Demshi will handle the deployment, maintenance, and installation of the passive fiber infrastructure. This collaboration is integrated into Telecom Namibia's five-year comprehensive strategic business plan and its 2025/26 operational plan, focusing on enhancing customer experience, expanding fiber networks, and driving digital transformation. For the operator, utilizing an open-access network reduces the pressure of redundant construction, allowing more resources to be directed toward customer access, service package design, and enterprise communication upgrades. For Demshi, its infrastructure neutrality helps establish a shared local fiber platform for multiple service providers, offering a more flexible network foundation for Namibia's broadband market.
The agreement also specifies monthly lease payments based on customer subscription packages, as well as one-time fees for installation, interconnection, and on-site services.
Namibia's telecommunications market has long faced practical constraints such as vast geographical areas, dispersed population distribution, and aging fixed-line infrastructure in some regions. Replacing traditional copper cables with fiber can enhance network transmission stability and bandwidth capacity, reduce service disruptions caused by line damage, and support cloud phone systems, enterprise dedicated lines, remote work, online education, digital government services, and digital solutions for small and micro businesses. Telecom Namibia's choice of an open-access model in this partnership also signals a shift in the country's communication infrastructure development from a single-operator self-built and self-operated approach to a more efficient path of "infrastructure sharing plus service-layer competition."
The subsequent success of this collaboration will depend on the pace of fiber coverage expansion, the design of enterprise user packages, the efficiency of residential access installations, and the quality of network maintenance. As multiple African countries accelerate digital infrastructure development, Namibia's ability to extend fiber broadband to more towns and business hubs will help enhance local digital service capacity and create more stable foundational conditions for cross-border enterprise communications, data services, and regional internet access.
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