The Universal Service Provision (USP) project is an ongoing effort to promote the widespread availability and usage of network services and applications services by encouraging the installation of network facilities and the provision for network services and applications services in underserved areas and/or for underserved groups within the community (“universal service targets”). 

SKMM had, pursuant to regulation 4(1) of the Communications and Multimedia (Universal Service Provision) Regulations 2002 [P.U.(A) 419/2002] (as amended by P.U (A) 258/2008) (“the Regulations”), issued and published a notification specifying a list of universal service targets under Notification Ref. No: NT/USP/08/01 ("the Notification").

The ultimate goal of this project is to ensure that communities living in underserved areas are connected to mainstream Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development thus enabling and empowering these “connected communities” and bring about socio-economic development for those communities in the various sectors such as agriculture, education, health, and business, amongst others.