{"id":5741,"date":"2013-02-08T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T08:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-hotel-owners-protest-high-internet-costs\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T08:31:07","slug":"rwanda-hotel-owners-protest-high-internet-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-hotel-owners-protest-high-internet-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Hotel Owners Protest High Internet Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda Ministry of Youth and ICT in partnership with RDB -Rwanda Development Board has announced plans to rollout an awareness campaign promoting the use of High Speed Internet Access in Hotels across Rwanda.}}<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed today,Feb 8th during a meeting that attracted MYICT, RDB, Hoteliers and internet Providers and Rwanda Utility and Regulatory Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting focused on how internet broadband can be used in improving service delivery among Hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel owners complained that internet connection was insufficient adding that the cost for connectivity is still expensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery clients that come to our hotels ask whether there is internet connectivity. Service providers and hotel owners should be sensitised to improve the situation,\u201d One of the Hoteliers suggested.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Hotels Association has said the reason why internet connectivity is costly is due to the lack of competition among internet operators.<\/p>\n<p>He added that investment in infrastructure is done by few people.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of ICT, Jean Philibert Nsengimana urged RURA to coordinate how ISP industry will connect all hotels to a broadband Internet connection across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Nsengimana said the whole country is covered by Internet broadband adding that Hoteliers should exploit the benefits of the later to serve their clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda Ministry of Youth and ICT in partnership with RDB -Rwanda Development Board has announced plans to rollout an awareness campaign promoting the use of High Speed Internet Access in Hotels across Rwanda.}} This was revealed today,Feb 8th during a meeting that attracted MYICT, RDB, Hoteliers and internet Providers and Rwanda Utility and Regulatory Authority. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}