Initial phase: Fibre network for Cape Town

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 10 December 2007

In what must come as good news to Capetonians the City of Cape Town is planning to invest no less than R300 million in a fibre optic network over the next 5 years.

This will place Cape Town on the map as the ‘first major city in South Africa to adopt such a plan’ (Cape Town to build R300m fibre network, Business Times, 8 December 2007). This is according to Belinda Walker, Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services.

Who will be the main users of the planned network?

The city administration.

‘The city administration, with its 10 000 computer users, would be the main user of the infrastructure, but it would make spare capacity available to telecommunications service providers. The first of these were likely to be the four universities and other research institutions in the metropole’ (Cape Town to build R300m fibre network, Business Times, 8 December 2007).

In other words, computer users of the city’s administration will be the main users of the network.

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