CAZ acting CEO Richard Mwanza said an agreement with Macha Linknet will finance the rural multipurpose telecenters in the southern part of the country. The project, Mwanza said, will initially involve four provinces but will later expand.

CAZ has been setting aside funds from license fees toward the development of ICT services in rural areas.

"The CAZ [is] now ready to implement the universal access program in rural Zambia to provide ICT services," Mwanza said.

The model, Mwanza said, is an initiative for a VSAT (Very Small Aperture Technology) service operated by the malaria research center located in the small town of Macha, which eventually grew to a multifaceted community-based resource servicing the needs of private and government institutions in the community.

Mwanza said the CAZ now wants to replicate the model to other parts of the country so that they can also benefit from such an integrated ICT solution, offering a variety of services.