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Sentech: A costly
affair
ADSL South
Africa (Broadband South Africa), 21 October 2007
The cost
associated with the rollout of Wireless Broadband by Sentech over the next four years is expected to reach R3.1
billion. Taxpayers will have to foot more than 80% of the
bill.
‘The rollout
of wireless broadband by the state-owned signal
transmitter Sentech is expected to cost 3.1 billion rand over the next
four years. Of this, the department of communications has bid for 2.5 billion rand to be allocated to it in the
medium-term budget statement which will be delivered by finance minister Trevor Manuel in two weeks' time’
(Wireless broadband to cost R3.1bn, Michael Hamlyn, Inet-Bridge, 18 October
2007).
In other
words, Sentech’s Wireless Broadband rollout will be a costly
affair for taxpayers.
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