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SA will play a leading role in building an affordable broadband network for the African continent, says the communications minister. Cape Town - South Africa will be playing a leading role in building an affordable broadband network for the continent, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said.
Speaking in her Budget vote on Thursday, she said the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad)-led initiative to build the network involved initially 22 countries in southern and eastern Africa. It... |
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26/05/2006 14:17 PM
By: Belinda Anderson
Johannesburg - Telkom target Business Connexion says it continues to focus on executing its long-term strategy and is not sitting around waiting to see if the acquisition goes ahead.
Speaking at a background presentation on why telecommunications companies around the world are buying ICT (information and communication technology) companies, Business Connexion CEO Peter Watt said the group planned to invest an additional R85m over the next six to nine months... |
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Cape Town, South Africa
26 May 2006 01:18
A parliamentary committee has approved draft legislative changes that boost the legislature's role, and lessens that of the executive, in the appointment of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) council.
The amendments were approved by the communications portfolio committee this week, and will now be tabled in Parliament for consideration.
A previously amended Icasa Bill was sent back to Parliament by President Thabo Mbeki for t... |
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By Mariette le Roux
PARLIAMENT – Enhancing South Africa’s broadband infrastructure was a priority for higher economic growth and socio-economic development, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Thursday.
This would require “direct and deliberate government intervention”, she told MPs in the National Assembly during her department’s budget vote.
“Consistent with Cabinet’s declaration that ours is a developmental state, we have decided to examine the contribution that the assets of s... |
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By Rebecca Harrison
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has unveiled plans to further dismantle state-owned Telkom's fixed-line monopoly and is building a wireless broadband network to boost Internet access in Africa's biggest economy.
The Ministry of Communications will allow all operators access to the "last mile" network of phone lines into homes and offices and will use state-owned signal carrier Sentech to build a wireless broadband network that will offer voice services.
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South Africa is to focus on less costly wireless networks as it moves to roll out a broadband infrastructure across the country that is "robust enough" to cater for all socio-economic, business and research needs.
And state-owned company Sentech, Africa's largest broadcast signal distributor, is to "form the core" of South Africa's wireless broadband rollout, Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said in the National Assembly on Thursday.
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[Johannesburg, 26 May 2006] - Broadband users had the opportunity to be heard during public hearings into ADSL pricing this week, held by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA), and most took the opportunity to point fingers at Telkom.
Rudolph Muller, founder of MyADSL, an online forum with over 10 000 members, asked Telkom to deliver to users the services it advertises.
Using a Telkom advertisement, Muller showed Telkom has offered broadband users large downloads for everything from m... |
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Managed liberalisation of the telecommunications sector seems to mean more government intervention rather than less, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri's budget speech yesterday clearly states.
In probably her most powerful and far-sighted delivery before Parliament in recent years, Matsepe-Casaburri gave a budget speech for her ministry and department that had a lot of meaningful content and seemed to cite the right laws, yet one senses something is still lacking.
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