Nearly 49 per cent of the population in the Dhofar Governorate has been covered with fiber optic services, this was revealed by the Telecommunications Regulations Authority (TRA) on Wednesday.
According to TRA, around 142 residential areas have been covered by the 5G services while of 163 schools, 101 of them have 5G services, 52 of them have fiber optic services, and ten schools 10 are connected to other communication services.
Reviewing the plans for the year 2023, Omar bin Hamdan al Ismaili, CEO of TRA, has been visiting different areas of the Dhofar Governorate.
It may be noted that nearly 600,000 buildings in the country were covered by fiber services in 2022.
Around 51 per cent of buildings with fiber optic services with plans to cover 50,000 new buildings in 2023 with optical fiber networks.
TRA has a target to cover 75 per cent of the buildings in the country with an optical fiber network by 2025.
According to TRA, the 5G and optic fiber services cover about 94 per cent of 880 schools.
TRA's #YourRight ToKnow campaign
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is continuing with its awareness campaign on the protection of the rights of users of various services.
TRA campaign #YourRight ToKnow aims to protect the rights of beneficiaries by educating them about their rights and obligations towards telecom service providers.
In return, the telecom providers have participated in the campaign by publishing a number of messages through the hashtag #YourRight_ToKnow, on various types of fraud issues and their risks, which targets all segments of society, and both citizens and residents.
The campaign includes educational messages on several topics of interest such as international roaming, billing, advertising messages, grievances of beneficiaries, and children's rights, in addition to quality approval and the 'Choose your package' platform.
TRA issued a regulation of the rights of beneficiaries last September, which included 11 chapters divided into 75 articles, concerned with regulating the relationship between beneficiaries and telecommunications companies or their licensees.
These regulations will be implemented in mid-February of 2024 as part of the TRA's responsibility towards taking care of the interests of beneficiaries and promoting the use of telecommunications services.
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