EWH Chief Marketing Officer, Isaiah Nyangari, told The Zimbabwean that ZESA’s failure o provide electricity for the company's recently-constructed transmitters, or base stations, had pushed up costs for the service provider.
"We didn't expect the high costs in terms of fuel. We thought the national power company Zesa would provide power. But they say because of the low tariffs they could not provide power," Nyangari said.
He said the company now relied heavily on generators, which were more expensive to run. He said this had affected the quality of the network's coverage, although the costs would not be passed to consumers. In fact, he said tariffs would continue coming down.
"The erratic power supply is affecting our performance. We have base stations and we need to fuel them. We're now using more fuel than any other consumer in Zimbabwe because of this. We're now considering linking up with one of the fuel suppliers like Sakunda or the former BP," Nyangari said.
He announced that the company was working with Ericsson to secure high-quality base stations that would be installed in buildings around Harare, where most of the company's traffic was generated.
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