Botswana Telecommunications Corporation

BTCL

Type	Public company
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Gaborone
Key people	Anthony Masunga , Managing Director
Products	Telecommuncations services Internet services
Revenue	P1.51 billion (2016)
Number of employees	947 (November 2015)
Website	http://www.btc.bw/

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) is a telecommunications and Internet service provider in Botswana. BTC is headquartered in Gaborone. It provides telecommunications services all over the country and the majority of its services are in the capital city, Gaborone and the second largest city, Francistown. Currently it has over 100 000 customer access lines in service.

The company was formally as government entity but is now as public entity listed on the Botswana Stock Exchange as Botswana Telecommunications Limited (BTCL)

BTC was established in 1980 to provide, develop, operate and manage Botswana's national and international telecommunications services. BTC is a parastatal in which the Botswana government holds 100% equity.. BTC was the only telecommunications provider in Botswana until 1996 when an amendment of the BTC Act removed the monopoly of BTC and allowed indirect competition from two cellular companies, Mascom Wireless and Vista Communications (now Orange).

BTC has a telecommunications infrastructure that is one of the most modern in Africa. Its network, composed of an all-digital microwave and fibre optic system with digital exchanges at the main centres, provides a high quality service. The current network comprises 7 300 kilometers of microwave radio and fibre optic links between 12 main processors, each serving a specific area of the country. The switching units have a capacity of about 117 000 lines. Current services provided include national and international telephony, managed and data networks, very small aperture terminal (VSAT), private wires, leased circuits, toll free services, Internet, paging, public telephones, voice messaging, telex, packet switching, telegraph and customer premises. International access is provided from Botswana to almost every country in the world.

BTC has also supplied the backbone network to facilitate cellular communication throughout the country and works closely with the two mobile operators - Mascom Wireless and Orange.In 2008 BTC established a mobile arm beMOBILE. On 1 November 2012 BTC was converted to and registered as a public company, Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTCL)