Salience was engaged by the World Bank to perform a deep dive into NBI and to advise on the one particular aspect of the national broadband strategy. Salience identified what to do with the state-owned National Backbone Infrastructure (NBI), the management of which is currently outsourced to a private entity, and specifically provide opinion on the operating model of the infrastructure vis-a-vis similar arrangements in other countries.

• An in-Country data gathering wherein key stakeholders were met and relevant data to drill down on the network and its operational history that our experts used to do a detailed assessment of the Current Situation
• Study of the Uganda fixed broadband network providers and infrastructure available which helped us to curate an Options Analysis for effective expansion going forward.
• Final Recommendations for consideration of the World Bank and the regulator NITA-U