Today in observance of World Telecommunications Day, BTL put out its wares for the public.
New Managing Director John Vandross opened the display stating that in keeping with this year's theme of "Information and Communications technologies: leading the way to sustainable development" - BTL will increase its efforts at expanding coverage.
John Vandross, Managing Director - BTL
"We at BTL have many challenges ahead of us; we need to develop our network, we need to make it more accessible to more rural areas because as I said it is a key ingredient for economic development and you cannot have economic growth if you don't have a telephone so we're working very vigorously to come up with new technological solutions that will enable us to provide telecommunications service in even some of the rural areas.
Suzette Tillet, BTL Marketing
"Today we have on display our products and services but we also put our display in line with the theme for World Telecommunications Day which is ICT: leading the way for sustainable development. What we have here on display is our mobile service which is our Digicell, we have under PSTN which is the regular service, we have on display our copper lines, our fiber lines, our wireless which is services in the rural areas and then we also have future services which includes internet kiosks which is the internet like from a vending machine. And under future service we have the GPRS which is having the email service on your cellphone and then under internet we also have a display showing our different types of internet which includes cable, DSL, and of course our prepaid internet service.
BTL today also honored employees for their long service to the company.