ADDIS ABABA: In an effort to boost both the telecom sector and Rwanda's overall economy, Tigo Rwanda announced that it had created some 5,000 jobs over the past two years through its sales training program that it launched in 2010. The company said in a report published on Monday that the 5,000 jobs through the Tigo sales school were in freelance sales and customer operations staff “with skills to grow a small business." The company said that the school will continue to help boost the job market across Rwanda in the coming years, with the hope that by boosting sales workers across the country, it will also help continue to boost telecom sales and mobile phone subscriptions. “The trainees are mainly Tigo sales agents who also sell other products," the company said. Experts in East Africa have repeatedly said that the program should be emulated across the region as a means of boosting telecom sales as well as increasing the local job market in countries.