Zain Zambia today announced it had purchased the first ever Mobile ‘base-station’ in Zambia, and will be publicly commissioning it during this weekend’s N’cwala Ceremony in Chipata.
Essentially, this is a full-scale base-station, mounted on a heavy-duty truck chassis, which is able to provide voice and data service to customers wherever in Zambia it is needed. It has its own self- contained power supply and operations room. It can relay a mobile call from the middle of nowhere, via a Satellite Dish mounted on its roof, where the Global Positioning System (GPS), locks onto a satellite in space, and beams the call back down to Zain’s state-of-the-art operations centre in Lusaka, from where the call will be delivered to the called party. All this happens in a less than a few seconds.
Zain claims to have the largest network by far in Zambia, and now it goes truly ‘mobile’ with this high-tech base station in which it invested USD 400,000.
“It’s about the customer; with this mobile base-station, and heavy-duty truck, we can go to any remote area in Zambia, and provide relief coverage, or to a large function like football matches, ceremonies, or anywhere that large crowds might be, and if they are a Zain customer we’ll now be able to ensure they can always make calls, or send text messages without fear of congestion” said Zain Zambia Managing Director, Mr. David Holliday.
With the largest network in Zambia, which we are still expanding every day, we are committed to providing network coverage everywhere to our customers, and this a really helpful way to provide ‘on-demand’ coverage, he added.
We are now also able to play our part in the event of disasters, and help the Zambian government and other agencies with this new technology, to get to the affected area, and within minutes, establish critical communications links.
Am on my way to muteguleni
so childish the first two b4 me. one wonders how Zambia can develop.
How can it develop if you dnt even have a bank account in Zambia.
lol
I guess you are an economic refugee. So far away you are not even paying tax. Those of us in Zed doing so
Great stuff. On “Zain claims to have the largest network by far in Zambia, and now it goes truly ‘mobile’ with this high-tech base station in which it invested USD 400,000”, I am glad that ZAIN former Celtel is making enough money to by such equipment. On the otherhand, ZAMTEL should be making such money if management is firm, but due to lack of proper motivation and help, the company is collapsing.
This is positive news. We need to invest in such technology in tough times like these. It is only by introducing outstanding products that combine fascination and environmental responsibility that Zambia will develop.
Seo angoni ti hambe ku Mtenguleni to ka giye. Ungoni unga silelini.
Wait i can see three “6” in the company logo design( Zain).Can any one see it?
You can see anything you want on an LSD trip.
Can you see it too?
wat are you insinuating
COMPANIES INVEST WHEN THEY ARE CONFIDENT A COUNTRY IS IN SOBER HANDS. AND RB IS A VERY SOBER HAND.
Big fish in Zambia, They should pay more money its a new invest plan as Zain and Zambia too.
Hope the thing works. I still find it a nightmare at times to get through them.
Ba Zain, Sometimes you never get hold of them in days and no one gets to you in days.. What type of service is this?.. Come on Zambia look for better local investors. These have proven history/track record of poor delivery of services, why go for them??
Olo…
Ba Zain business plan maningi udobo, Just making every phone and talk time cheap with very poor and SHODDY services especially in the rural areas.
$400,000 is not investing ba zain.Be seriours,i can’t call home coz of yo stu–p network.
Text message takes two days from zambia
Text message takes two days from zambia
What is there to launch about this? Other networts have had this for many years now.
i hate zain
They are too expensive for nothing ba Zain
Why still keeping them in zambia, kick them out, you delaying. Kimasholi feela.
The N’cwala ceremony will lose its allure as more people know about the Ngoni defeat in Bembaland, a defeat which is described by Andrew D. Roberts in A History of the Bemba ( p. 364 ) as follows: “Nonetheless, the fact that the Bemba were able to repel the Ngoni war-bands meant that the Bemba remained a single polity, instead of fragmenting like other people who had stood in the path of the Ngoni.”