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Africa-Press<\/a> – Rwanda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Consumers of MTN Rwanda services have said they are optimistic of better services following a notice to the telecommunication company by the sector regulator to fix glitches that have for months blighted their services.<\/p>\n

On Monday, August 23, Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) issued an order to MTN Rwanda \u2013 the biggest operator by market share \u2013 urging them to solve all network connection issues.<\/p>\n

These include poor calls connections (first attempts failures), drop calls and Silent\/Garbled-Speech Calls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poor calling connections with MTN has been for a very long time, we were starting to think that it will never be solved at all but we are happy the government intervened,\u201d said Mignone Akaliza, a Kigali resident.<\/p>\n

On social media platforms including Twitter, the new directive was also met with excitement with many people sharing their frustrations with the operator which has affected them in various ways.<\/p>\n

Others shared their concerns with The New Times, wondering why poor internet connectivity was not highlighted among the problems to be solved;<\/p>\n

Many of those affected by poor internet connections are students who have been following their classes online owing to the Covid-19 pandemic,<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the complaints we hear in class are of students complaining about their internet connection which doesn\u2019t allow them to fully participate in class. This might make a whole hour of a course go to waste,\u201d said Etienne Nkunzumgisha, a university facilitator.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate studying online. I stay most of the time seated in front of a laptop indicating that I had poor connection. It is so annoying and I have missed out on many courses,\u201d said Huguette Kamikazi, a university student.<\/p>\n

Also Claire Kabandana, a marketing analyst shared; \u201cI use my mobile internet when I\u2019m working from home, but it is so slow and I can\u2019t have a zoom meeting on it. Unless I buy a 4G internet, which is expensive for me but still not that efficient\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The New Times, Charles Gahungu, the General Manager in charge of ICT Regulation at RURA said that the enforcement notice touches both the voice and data network connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe avoided using technical terms that might confuse the public, but we overall inspect if a cellular network meets the minimum parameters set, both on voice and data network connections and we will keep doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also highlighted that this should serve as a warning to all cellular network providers operating in Rwanda in general.<\/p>\n

According to the notice, MTN Rwanda will have to fix the glitches by October 29, 2021 in Kigali City and by November 30, 2021 in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

Failure to do so, they will face regulatory sanctions.<\/p>\n

Efforts to get a comment from MTN Rwanda were futile by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. Consumers of MTN Rwanda services have said they are optimistic of better services following a notice to the telecommunication company by the sector regulator to fix glitches that have for months blighted their services. 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