Namibia’s CPBN Invests N$121M in Intelsat Deal to Ensure Broadcast Access for All

The Central Procurement Board of Namibia (CPBN)  has finalized a procurement statement worthy N$121 cardinal with Intelsat Ventures for the proviso of Direct-To-Home (DTH) Transmission Services connected behalf of the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). 

The declaration is acceptable to importantly grow nationalist broadcast reach, with the extremity of achieving 100% tv and vigor sum crossed Namibia. Currently, NBC’s tv services screen 74.5% of the country, portion vigor sum stands astatine 78%. The DTH rollout aims to adjacent these gaps wrong six to 7 months, ensuring cosmopolitan entree to broadcast services careless of geographic location.

This inaugural supports Namibia’s broader docket of integer inclusion and equitable entree to information. It besides reflects CPBN’s relation successful advancing nationalist improvement done transparent and businesslike procurement processes that present high-impact nationalist work outcomes.