ERRA: Telecom After the Quake
One of the impacts of the earthquake of Oct 8 2005 was that the telecommunication infrastructure and services in the northern areas were updated. ERRA (Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority) was formed and issued a vision and strategy for the telecom services in the area. The telecom strategy by ERRA, available online, gives a summary of the damage to telecom infrastructure in 2005 and the proposed approach to new work. By the way, the website has a wealth of information about the area, progress of the projects and statistics about many reconstructions sectors.
One of the important related development has been the change in policy regarding licencing of services as covered in this post by Tee Emm. Now all major operators are allowed to offer their services in the earthquake impacted areas. Telenor has been expanding its network to the Northern areas and has been doing extensive marketing about it as well. Earlier this year CMPak also signed on an agreement for providing services in AJK and Northern areas. Overall these changes provides better choices for the people which is their inherent consumer right and narrows down the digital divide a notch. It may not be much consolation for the people who lost so much 2 years ago but its part of the bigger struggle to provide them better services to keep going.
Related Link: October 8th 2005, Remembered
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[...] ERRA: Telecom After the QuakeOne of the impacts of the earthquake of Oct 8 2005 was that the telecommunication infrastructure and services in the northern areas were updated. ERRA (Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority) was formed and issued a vision … [...]