Country: Mozambique

Client: Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM)

Project Title: Technical Assistance for a VSAT Study in Mozambique

Project Description: Sixteen years of civil war had ravaged Mozambique’s limited infrastructure and helping Telecomunicações de Mozambique to find ways to extend communications service to rural areas posed special challenges, especially when the country had limited labor due to its immense civilian losses.

Global Resources evaluated TDM’s business planning needs and considered differing technologies for extending service. We focused on methodologies that could provide citizens with immediate communications access with the limited available labor. VSAT communications fit the bill, and had the added advantage of avoiding the construction of a land-based fiber network in areas where land mines were still present.

Global Resources designed a market and business planning study that focused on the use of VSAT technologies, thereby leveraging satellite resources for the short term, with a plan to migrate the network to a fiber backbone as human and financial resources grew.

Nos agradecemos Telecomunicaçãoes de Mozambique por sua hospitalidade e suo apoio de nosso trabalho compartilhado de projeto, e desejamos-lhes o mais melhor na reconstrução da sua Nação.