National Postal Policy
2.0
CURRENT STATUS OF THE SECTOR
2.1.
The existing framework under which the postal sector is functioning
was put into place with effect from January 1994 when wide ranging
reform of the sector was made. Under the reforms, the roles of the
various sector players were well defined and the Tanzania Posts and
Telecommunications Corporation (TP & TC) was split into the
following entities:i.
ii.
iii.
The Tanzania Communications Commission (TCC), as the
regulator for the communications sector;
The Tanzania Posts Corporation (TPC) as the Public Postal
operator; and
The Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd. (TTCL),
as the dominant telecommunications services operator.
Prior to these reforms, the Tanzania Postal Bank (TPB) was
established in 1992 as an independent entity operating within the
TPC network on agency basis. Hitherto, the Tanzania Post Office
Savings Bank was run off the TP & TC on an agency basis on behalf
of the government. Currently TPC provides most of the outlets for
TPB on an agency basis.
2.2.
The current institutional structure of the postal sector is constituted
of the Government which is responsible for policy formulation; the
Regulator for licensing postal operators and overseeing compliance
to licence conditions and ensuring a level playing field in the sector;
postal operators for service provision and the customers as users of
the postal services. The postal sector is partially liberalized whereby
the Public Postal Operator (PPO) retains a reserved area in basic
services while competing with other operators to provide domestic
and international courier and other value added services.
2.1.
The current network coverage of the Public Postal Operator stands
at 430 Post Offices with an average of 79,140 inhabitants served per
post office. The following comparative figures give an indication of
the level of inadequacy of the Postal network in Tanzania:
Ministry of Communications and Transport
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