Tanzania, Feb. 14 -- Arusha. Tanzania and Burundi will continuously be urged to join the East African region's One Area Network (ONA).

The framework is one of the initiatives intended to harmonize tariffs on voice calls in the region.

Eventually this will reduce the high cost of communication in the East African Community (EAC) bloc.

The EAC secretariat and the East African Business Council (EABC) insist that the telecommunication costs remain a burden.

Mr John Bosco Kalisa, EABC executive director, said had pledged to join the network back in 2015.

ONA, he added, was just one of the infrastructure projects development initiatives for the central corridor.

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