The Minister in charge of Digital Transition and Posts, Dr Aminata Zerbo/Sabane, set the tone for the start of operations of the commercial activities of Bridge Fiber Solutions (BFS), the manager of the national telecommunications backbone. The launch ceremony took place this Friday, March 10, 2023 in Ouagadougou.
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Making digitalization a reality in Burkina Faso, and also making digital a vector of socio-economic development, Bridge Fiber Solutions (BFS), the national telecommunications backbone manager is proving to be a solution to achieve these sought-after ideals. ” The provision of national telecommunications backbone infrastructure to companies, institutions and populations will undoubtedly accelerate the digitalization dynamic in which we are engaged.
By improving these electronic communication infrastructures, we provide the means to ensure the economic competitiveness of our companies and to contribute to the performance of our defense and security forces in this particularly difficult context. “, announced Dr Aminata Zerbo / Sabane, Minister of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications.
She also notified that the BFS has a long network of nearly 3000 km with the capacity to connect the 13 regions, and nearly a hundred rural urban communes. Notwithstanding, Dr. Aminata Zerbo/Sabane added that the infrastructure also connects the country of honest men to the rest of the world via its three neighboring countries, namely Côte d’Ivoire, Niger and Mali.
However Dr Aminata Zerbo/Sabane indicated that Bridge Fiber Solutions faces challenges and not least. For her, the challenges lie on the one hand in satisfying the partners who are demanding in terms of quality of electronic service.
And on the other hand, government expectations in terms of digitization. Nevertheless, she reaffirmed her confidence in BFS to effectively meet these challenges while ensuring the availability of her department to support her in her mission to achieve her various objectives.
Boris Compaoré, CEO of BFS, reassured the minister about meeting the increasingly demanding digital demand. To this end, he returned to the potential offered by the new software.
« These new resources will substantially improve the digital offer throughout the national territory. They will make it possible to provide appropriate services to companies at favorable rates and conditions, thus contributing in the long term to reducing the digital bill. “, he said.
Note that Bridge Fiber Solutions is a public broadband infrastructure built and financed by the Burkinabè government. It will therefore be managed by the mobile telephone operator Telecel.
Aminata Catherine SANOU
Burkina 24
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