{"id":14121,"date":"2019-10-11T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14121"},"modified":"2019-10-11T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:06:17","slug":"around-10-of-burundians-have-access-to-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/around-10-of-burundians-have-access-to-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 10% of Burundians have access to Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donatien Manirampa, Director General of the Agency for Regulatory and Control of Telecommunications in Burundi-ARCT says about 53% of Burundians are in possession of cell phones, but only around 10% of them have access to internet. \u201cThe internet penetration rate remains low due to the telecommunication antennas installed in urban areas,\u201d he says adding that the majority of Burundians live in rural areas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14120\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14120\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DG-ARCT-Donatien-Manirampa-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DG-ARCT-Donatien-Manirampa-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DG-ARCT-Donatien-Manirampa--300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DG-ARCT-Donatien-Manirampa--768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DG-ARCT-Donatien-Manirampa--600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donatien Manirampa: \u201cThe penetration rate remains low due to the telecommunication antennas installed in urban areas\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He says ARCT expect to avail the coverage of electronic communication networks throughout the country. He also says the government has set up a Universal Service Fund. \u201cIt will contribute to the extension of the networks of available operators. \u201cRural people will then have access to the telecommunication networks and benefit from their services,\u201d he says. Burundi has four cell companies namely Econet, Smart, Viettel Burundi and Onamob.<\/p>\n<p>The Agency for Regulatory and Control of Telecommunications in Burundi-ARCT organized an open day this October 11, to present its achievements, challenges and expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donatien Manirampa, Director General of the Agency for Regulatory and Control of Telecommunications in Burundi-ARCT says about 53% of Burundians are in possession of cell phones, but only around 10% of them have access to internet. \u201cThe internet penetration rate remains low due to the telecommunication antennas installed in urban areas,\u201d he says adding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,670],"tags":[970,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14122,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions\/14122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}