Big canon ready to fire

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 12 February 2008

One of Neotel’s ‘big canons’, Infraco, is ‘ready to fire’. Infraco is the state-owned national broadband provider that was created to help lower the cost of broadband in South Africa and to make broadband accessible to a wider South African audience.

Infraco has recently made it clear that their national backhaul infrastructure is in place and that their network is “ready for use” or in our terms: ‘ready to fire’. ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) sees Infraco as one of Neotel’s ‘big canons’ because Infraco will be supplying Neotel with broadband services over the next four years. This is in terms of an exclusivity deal struck between the two. Infraco is waiting on a license from ICASA and is expected to launch before the end of 2008.

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) welcomes the fact that Infraco’s network is “ready for use”. This will definitely help to speed up the break up of Telkom’s monopoly where broadband is of a concern in South Africa.