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Connecting SA will cost up to R90b, minister says
According to BusinessTech, Communications Minister Dina Pule said that between R60 to R89 billion would need to be invested to build a telecommunications broadband network throughout the country and to reduce connectivity costs.
Speaking after her delivery of the communications budget vote speech in parliament, Pule said that costs were the major reason why communications had to have a prime seat on the Presidential Infrastructure Co-ordinating Commission.
Headed by President Jacob Zuma, the commission's prime role will be to fast track up to R1 trillion worth of infrastructure-build in various sectors including energy and transport, BusinessTech reports. The Communications Minister said she was not happy with the slow pace of broadband roll out throughout the country. Illustrative of this was that only 2,000 out of a possible 27,000 government schools had been connected to the internet. "Even the 1,650 schools we have budgeted for this year [are] not enough," she said, "we need to build that ICT infrastructure."
Read the full article on http://businesstech.co.za.
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