Uganda’s electricity transmission company officials have visited Ghana’s power transmission company, GRIDCo to hold three days of discussions on the Optic Fibre Business, of which GRIDCo has excellent expertise.
The delegation was led by Jjumba Abdu Karim.
The visit follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) and GRIDCo about six months ago for collaboration.
The Acting Director at the Office of the Chief Executive of GRIDCo, Mr Sam Acquah, led the GRID Consult, Southern Network Department, to conduct interactive sessions on working models adopted by GRIDCo commercialization of fibre.
Commenting on the visit, Jjumba Abdu Karim said, “We will start a fresh page of a profitable and economically viable fibre business. We will also adopt a good fibre business strategy; a fibre business roadmap and restructure the ICT organogram accordingly. Additionally, the team will correct the errors made to avoid losses and litigation issues.”
Mr Karim added that the next steps are to revamp UETCL’s Fibre Business model to incorporate the lessons learnt in GRIDCo benchmarking.
The UETCL, after its commencement in 2001, held a Public Infrastructure Provider’s Licence from the Uganda Communications Commission for owning and operating their optic fibre infrastructure with the primary purpose to support the Supervising Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system in ensuring grid availability and reliability in Uganda.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
