The World Bank Group has selected Salience Consulting to undertake a study on Telecommunications Sector Reform and Advancing Universal Broadband Access in Namibia. The objective of this assignment is to assess and propose clear and robust actions in order to address the market constraints to reaching universal access in Namibia and to ensure improvement in quality of service, internet access and affordability in the telecommunications market.

• Market Assessment of the current situation
• Study of the policy, regulatory and legislative environment
• Study of the demand-side

Provide set of recommendations in regards to:

• Market reforms for private sector to improve competition
• Better use of government demand for connectivity services
• Options to improve access to underserved and unserved areas
• Improvements in quality of services
• Policy and regulatory actions for improvement of affordability and internet access