Human Rights Measure

“The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) and Oman Broadband Company (OBC) signed an agreement . . . to provide telecommunications and internet services to [598] villages and population centers by satellite in various governorates.” The “initiative aims at the provision of telecommunications and internet services to villages and rural population centers in Oman. TRA requested funding from the Ministry of Finance and a sum of RO 15 million was approved to provide the infrastructure for this project.” This initiative also “intends to further the implementation of the National Broad Band Strategy . . . to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural areas.”