SA will form its Own Broadband Provider

The South African government will create a broadband infrastructure firm based on long distance, fiber optic network built up by Transnet and Eskom, as per Alec Erwin - minister for Public Enterprises (SA). Formation of the broadband infrastructure company, which is provisionally named as "Broadband InfraCo", is anticipated to rapidly reduce one of the key expenses of broadband i.e. national long distance connectivity. Emergence of analogous ICT (Information and Communications Technology) market in the country would be fast tracked by the formation of this company. Although it would take liberalization a few years to achieve this, InfraCo would achieve it in the early 2007 itself", according to the minister. The move will likely result in a swift movement towards a g View the rest of this article