Staff Organisation

BTA staff is currently divided into nine departments, each headed by a Director and a General Counsel in respect of legal services. The nine departments are:

• Engineering Services
• Market Development and Analysis
• Broadcasting Regulation
• Communications and Public Affairs
• Finance
• Corporate Services
• Legal Services
• Compliance and Consumer Affairs
  

Each of the nine departments is further divided into units headed by a Manager. For example, the Departments of Communications and Consumer Affairs have a Manager of Communications and a Manager of Consumers Affairs respectively.

The office of General Counsel, (Legal Services) is headed by an Attorney and includes three other Attorneys called Counsels. The current Executive Chairman is also a Lawyer, bringing the number of Lawyers to four, nearly 10% of BTA staff members. The Executive Chairman says "Regulation is all about a balancing of the scales of justice and as such lawyers are some of the ideal candidates for regulatory positions."

Organisational Objectives

• Facilitating entry of new service providers into the market;
• Managing the frequency spectrum efficiently in order to maximize frequency availability
• Making provision, to the extent necessary and in accordance with the Botswana Government Policy, for the financing of universal service in areas where this would otherwise be uneconomic and for special tariffs for disadvantaged users.
• Promoting the development of user representation and instituting consumer protection measure.

Developing BTA as a dynamic, open, transparent and respected organization with highly competent and well motivated staff, which will be a model telecommunications regulatory body

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