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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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