National Broadband Policy to be delivered by November
South Africa’s long-awaited National Broadband Policy would be delivered by the end of November, Communications Minister Yunus Carrim said last week.
Speaking at the sixteenth Southern Africa Telecommuni-cations Networks and Applica-tions Conference, or Satnac, in Stellenbosch, he said that the nation’s broadband policy had seen too many delays and that it was time to progress the document.
Following the tweaking and shortening of a document that the Minister found to be “depressing” and “too long”, the document was set to be finalised by the Department of Communications (DoC) in ten days, after which it would be tabled with the relevant government departments and the committee responsible for overseeing the implementation of Strategic Integrated Project 15 of the National Infrastructure Plan.
By November, the document would be delivered, Carrim averred, adding that he could be held accountable for its progression.
The DoC last year initiated the development of the National Broadband Policy as part of its move to transform the country’s inadequate information and communication technology (ICT) policies in an effort to fast-track South Africa’s broadband backbone and access infrastructure, particularly within rural and underserved areas, and meet the country’s vision of broadband for all by 2020.
The DoC’s earlier draft broadband policy, which was intended to facilitate growth, did not adequately deal with a number of challenges, including market structure and the regulatory environment.
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