As an ongoing exercise, all transmission lines are being upgraded from analog to digital, ensuring clearer and more reliable connections. This is the beginning of a linkage to the information super highway. The Internet Cafe at Manzini was officially opened in February 1998. Card phone network Plans are undeway to install card pay phones at strategic places throughout the country. UniSwa has been connected since December 1996 through a 64 Kbps analog to UniNet South Africa via Vets University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Plans exist to fiberlink all the major departments.
UniSwa experienced multiple connectivity problems which were attributed to the line quality and to the modems, and efforts to solve these had failed. The workshop has been highly instrumental in solving these problems and sharing expertise in the technology. The Sixth All Africa Telecommunications, Informatics and Broadcasting Conference was carried out between 19 and 23 of May 1997 in Swaziland. A CyberCafe was established to allow participants and visitors to learn, browse, e-mail and access to Internet. Twenty-five computers courtesy of ACER were swiftly installed and networked by Swaziland Computer Services .