{"id":32574,"date":"2013-02-28T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=32574"},"modified":"2013-03-01T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T06:44:37","slug":"plans-on-track-for-western-cape-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/32574\/plans-on-track-for-western-cape-broadband\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans on track for Western Cape broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Western Cape premier Helen Zille<\/a> said in her state of the province speech on 22 February 2013 that the province is on track to begin delivering broadband services to under-serviced areas by the end of 2014.<\/p>\n

According to Zille, the feasibility and design study for the wireless mesh project in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Saldanha Bay will also be finalised by the end March 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we have implemented this project, by the end of 2014, these areas will become wireless internet hotspots,\u201d Zille said.<\/p>\n

She said that people living and working there will have access to the Internet without having to be connected to a modem or a digital subscriber line.<\/p>\n

Zille\u2019s update on the Western Cape broadband roll-out comes just over a year since she first announced their plans to provide broadband connectivity to every citizen in the province.<\/p>\n

Another milestone for the project is that 70% of provincial government buildings, rural libraries and schools will be connected by the end of 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of people will experience for the first time, what it means to live in a connected, open, opportunity society,\u201d Zille said.<\/p>\n

\"Helen<\/a>

Helen Zille<\/p><\/div>\n

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