Botswana telecommunications industry owes its success to the intrepid decision and visionary leadership which found it paramount to liberalize the telco sector to create a uniform environment for all players, culminating in the conception of Botswana Fibre Networks Ltd (BoFiNet)..
BoFiNet
Plot 54352 West Avenue, Zambezi Towers - Floor 2, New CBD, Gaborone, Botswana
info@bofinet.co.bw
On the 30th March 2021, Botswana Fibre Networks in partnership with Huawei
Botswana donated an Audio Visual Lab furnished with ten (10) desktops, twenty (20) special
needs tablets as well as internet connectivity at the Gaborone Secondary School lab and the
school library.
Huawei Botswana was engaged by BoFiNet as a technical partner to install and commission
optic fibre cable network that provided high quality and high internet bandwidth at Extension
9, 11, 5, 3 and 39 for the Fibre to the Home Project that was officially launched in 2019.
Phase 1of the Fibre to the Home project in the above mentioned areas was completed in August 2020. Phase 2 of the project is ongoing and the project is scheduled to be complete in 2021 with over
16 000 households in Gaborone covered with Fibre to the Home technology.
BoFiNet has set contractual corporate social responsibilities obligation, that compels all its
partners to contribute towards the communities they work within through various corporate
social responsibility initiatives that support ICT development. Gaborone Secondary School was
identified as a beneficiary of the phase 1 CSR Fibre to the Home project being located in
extension 5 and fell within the area of the FTTh project.
The event was graced by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Honourable Thulagano
Segokgo. Since inception BoFiNet has executed a total of over 23 corporate social responsibility
projects across the country in areas such as Gudigwa, Sehithwa, Kasane, Hukuntsi, Kachikau,
Bobonong,Selebi Phikwe, Tsabong, Maun, Mogoditshane etc.