The heat is on

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 10 May 2008

This is how one can describe the mounting pressure on role players to complete Broadband Infraco's African West Coast Cable (AWCC) before the Soccer World Cup in 2010.

Time is running out and Broadband Infraco’s undersea cable project needs to be completed in time. Alec Erwin, Public Enterprises Minister, has made it clear that the pressure is mounting to complete the project. This is despite the fact that Matsepe-Casaburri, Minister of Communications, and her department wants to see the completion of Uhurunet or the Nepad Broadband ICT Network as well. This must certainly be the case because soccer is much more important to the Presidency than combatting crime for instance, despite what they might have to say about the matter, and also because the Presidency has made it clear that Broadband Infraco’s AWCC is now ‘government’s preferred international undersea cable inititative.’

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