2. VISION:

The Strategic Vision of the Government is to facilitate Universal Telephone Service throughout the
country and where there is a demand, all those value added services such as cellular mobile telephone paging, data services, access to Internet (including electronic mail), Voice mail and video conferencing – all at an affordable cost without compromising performance.

To achieve the Vision, Government’s role as a service provider will diminish as the private sector’s role increases. The Government’s objective will be to create a new policy environment to support this new scenario. Its ability to create policy, regulate and facilitate will be strengthened through a new Telecommunications Act which reflects the Government’s new policies, objectives and strategies and the establishment of new institutions including a Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) which will become the guardian of the Act and fulfil its regulatory functions.

1 as recommended by ITU it means any process that enables a correspondent to pass to one or more given correspondents ( telegraphy or telephony) .or possible correspondents ( broadcasting), information of any nature delivered in any usable form (written or printed matter, fixed or moving pictures, words, music , visible or audible signals , signals controlling the functioning of mechanism etc) by means of any electromagnetic system ( electrical transmission by wire, radio transmission, optical transmission etc. or a combination of such systems)