BTC willing to help BPO sector

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The Botswana Telecomm-unications Corporation (BTC) this week assured the emerging Botswana business outsourcing industry that through its international connections, the BTC is well-placed to negotiate better deals for the sector.

Seretse was speaking at the Business Process Outsourcing conference at the Gaborone Sun earlier this week. He stopped short of saying the BTC was beginning to accept that its high call tariffs were uncompetitive and prohibitive to Foreign Direct Investment.
He agrees that organisations like the Botswana International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) have legitimately "faulted BTC for prices" in the past.


Seretse says a consultancy study on tariffs conducted two years ago had shown that Botswana tariffs were "comparatively high." However, it was realised that local calls were being subsidised.

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