Internet service provider, Telecel Liberia, is currently providing internet services to the Sports Writers Association and other journalists covering the 2023/2024 National County Sports Meet at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex.
On Saturday, April 27, 2024, at the kickoff of the quarterfinal stage of the competition, the media tribune was electrified with the wireless internet connectivity for journalists who were providing coverage of the nation’s biggest sporting festival through a partnership negotiated by the leadership of the Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL).
The partnership was recently signed in Monrovia where Varmah Kamara, the president of SWAL, explained that internet access and connectivity over the years have been a major challenge for journalists and other media practitioners covering the County Meet.
According to him, his leadership keeps knocking on the doors of institutions in search of partnerships that will enhance the work of the media in bringing the game to their different audiences from the quarterfinal to the grand finale, because that has been a major constraint posed to media effectiveness during such event.
Kamara added that only Telecel, of all internet service provision institutions, openly endorsed the need for assisting the Liberian people with available internet for the ongoing County Meet. He thanked the management of the institution, stating the sports writers’ gratitude for the partnership on a short negotiation and term.
He told reporters that though the partnership with the sector entity is the first in the history of the body and his leadership, there are other prospective negotiations underway to make sports journalism a desirable area under the Liberia media, especially SWAL members.
The marketing Manager of Telecel, Alvin Hill, said the County Meet is a big event in Liberia, and assisting the journalists that are bringing the games through different platforms became necessary under their social cooperate responsibility.
Hill added that it is not the first time for the internet service providing institution to follow the working of SWAL, and Telecel is open to having more partnerships for the development of sports in the country.
He urged the journalists to make maximum use of the high-quality speed internet provided by them at the media tribune of the national stadium, remembering that delivery of the partnership terms and conditions has many more activities in store between both entities.
The Marketing Manager disclosed that his institution is also providing internet to the VIP lounge of the stadium through vouchers and other packages with the best of affordability.
