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SA needs to intensify fibre roll-out to meet connectivity aspiration

23rd October 2015

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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South Africa requires nearly 160 000 km of fibre to connect all its citizens to broadband, but a gap of about half this length remained, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) Kobus Roux said at the CSIR’s fifth conference, in Pretoria, this month.

He said the council’s newly developed gap methodology has determined that between 61 754 km and 84 000 km of fibre would be needed to extend fibre from existing nodes to enable fibre broadband access to South Africa’s citizens.

The “kilo-people kilometre” methodology aimed to map out an estimation of how much work was needed to close South Africa’s broadband gap through fibre.

The organisation, which has worked with government to develop South Africa’s broadband plan, SA Connect, continues to map out the country’s broadband infrastructure to understand where the largest gaps are and which available models can be used to narrow these gaps.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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