Last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museven expressed his hopes that the International Telecommunication Satellite Organisation could use its recently-renewed mandate to make satellite communications services more affordable for landlocked countries.
The Daily Monitor reported that a week-long 35th ITSO Assembly of Parties took place in Kampala, Uganda. Representatives from 85 countries unanimously voted that the ITSO receive another eight-year mandate to oversee, regulate, and ensure price control of global satellite services.
The Assembly participants relied upon the ITSO to shield its member states from exploitation. This went double for landlocked countries like Uganda, which were far more reliant upon satellite communications.
In a speech read on his behalf, President Museven said that Uganda and other landlocked were concerned with the high cost of satellite communications. The Ugandan statesman asked ITSO to come up with ways to decrease the cost of satellite communications services for developing countries.
Most nations make heavy use of submarine cables for high-speed, bandwidth-heavy communications. Uganda and at least 26 other countries are landlocked, however. Their difficulties in accessing those cables and the expense of alternative satellite communications systems have resulted in very irregular and unreliable communications within those nations, which negatively impacted business and slowed down economic development.
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