Sierra Tel’s COVID-19 Response - 05/10/2020
Sierra Tel
TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Africa | Sierra Leone
Sierra Tel continues to recognize the importance of keeping customers connected during these unprecedented times: "We understand that many families are still working from home, students are participating in on-line school programs, and many of our customers are still temporarily unemployed". To help ease the economic hardship customers may have incurred, Sierra Tel discounted their DSL internet s (...)

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Sierra Leone launches web portal to issue e-passes for essential movements during lockdown - 26/04/2020
Government
TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Sierra Leone
In a bid to improve on the efficiency and transparency in the management of passes for movement of persons and vehicles during periods of lockdowns or restrictions, the National Emergency Operations Centre is implementing an Electronic Pass Management System (e-Pass). This Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) portal should be used by the general public, government, and non-governmental organizations (...)

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NATCOM BOOSTS COVID-19 FIGHT IN SIERRA LEONE - 20/04/2020
National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM)
TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Sierra Leone
National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has boosted the fight against corona virus in Sierra Leone by donating fifty (50) hand wash equipment to be distributed across the country in support of the fight to prevent Covid-19. The commissioning of the handwashing equipment was held at the Commission’s head office at Hill Station in Freetown. The hand wash equipment are to be used in public p (...)

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