Mascom has entered into an agreement of preferential regional roaming rates with a South African services network provider, MTN, for both data and normal voice services. The agreement, which went into effect in March this year, will according to Mascom's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Jose Couceiro, give the company's customers, the benefit of attractive roaming rates for both data and normal services. Mr Couceiro assured Mascom's customers, on Saturday in Francistown during their 10th anniversary celebrations, that his company intended to continue with the advancement of mobile communication technology in Botswana. Mr Couceiro said over the past 10 years of its existence, Mascom maintained a tradition of excellence marked by numerous milestones in the history of telecommunication in the country. He said his company was the first, and the only Botswana mobile network operator to have introduced the third generation telecommunications known as UMTS/HSDPA or 3G.