{"id":5795,"date":"2012-02-09T22:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2012-02-09T22:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:19:54","slug":"the-r89-billion-broadband-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/5795\/the-r89-billion-broadband-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The R89 billion broadband question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications minister <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210235-Dina-Pule\" target=\"_blank\">Dina Pule<\/a> says that industry estimates suggest that it will cost somewhere between R60 billion and R89 billion to roll out broadband to all citizens of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Communications (DoC) has set a target to deliver 100% broadband penetration in South Africa by 2020, and Pule reaffirmed her department\u2019s commitment to reach this target. This may, however, be easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>The massive capital investment needed to achieve this target, and the sheer scale of this project, means that even with the minister\u2019s public-private partnership suggestion, it remains ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>Pule explained that the DoC has not done their own studies to estimate the cost of a national broadband rollout, but said that some industry players had investigated the matter and their findings show that the cost will be somewhere between R60 billion and R89 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Pule pointed out that this investment will not only help to get South Africans connected, but will also create around 200,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pule the rollout of a national broadband network will create an estimated 160,000 new jobs. The added labour force needed to maintain this network will bring the total jobs figure to around 200,000, said Pule.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently not clear how Pule plans to raise the money to fund the DoC\u2019s broadband target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications minister Dina Pule says that it may cost between R60 billion and R89 billion to meet the DoC\u2019s 100% broadband penetration target<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[58,1083,1444,26],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-broadband-1","tag-dina-pule","tag-doc","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}