SIIT 2009: rating Madagascar’s potential in the NTIC field

The second edition of the International Progress and Technology Show will be held at the Futura Exhibition Park from the 16th to the 20th of September. This event organized by the 1ère Ligne agency is sponsored the Ministry of Telecom and New Technologies (MTPNT). The country’s big four telecom operators are going to present their product of progress during the exhibition. A 5000 m² wide space will be settled for all participants starring in the NTIC field.  

For the SIIT 2009, Internet and high speed will be the center of all interests as phone line operators have been running a strategy of convergence. Orange Madagascar is still waiting for the authorization to market its fibber optic based very high speed, for having already linked Toamasina to La Reunion island back in June. The network democratization question remains on hold since the national fibber optic backbone still exclusively belongs to Telma. 

The absence of a prominent figure nearly eclipsed the announcement of the organization of the SIIT 2009. The fourth mobile phone operator, Madamobile won’t be able to present its product Life, rated as quite innovative in technological terms. The society was denied a marketing authorization again. According to the Telecommunication Ministry, all of the specification terms are not yet completed. Madamobile inherited Telecel’s license, the first mobile phone operator in the country back in the1990s. 

Conferences also constitute the appeal of the SIIT. The operators will be presenting products as well as top leading technologies. Six themes a day will be treated. The SIIT will be concerning every communication platform as well as to all of their up and downstream applications. The event is ambitioning to become a wide opened stage for all innovating technologies and all of its derivatives. 

The SIIT wants to ease and boost exchanges between the NTIC sector operators. This platform is aiming at improving Madagascar’s economic attractiveness level as well as the investment environment. Closely involved into the development of the NTIC in the country, the MTPNT is keen on emboldening upcoming new investors through the SIIT 2009. Network improvement and especially communication price falls are this attractiveness’s key factors.