Broadband should be available to all - just like healthcare and education, says Mboweni

[Bradley Prior]

Broadband should be available to all - just like healthcare and education, says Mboweni

Broadband internet should be open to all, and is a fundamental part of moving South Africa’s economy forward, says finance minister Tito Mboweni.

Presenting to the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town on Thursday (5 September), Mboweni said that greater internet access will also help aid the country’s other major issues.

 

[dualmeister]

I vote for free beer next.

 

[Urist]

Sure, National Internet service, but keep it limited to educational and productive stuff.
Use the sabc money and spectrum.
Kids could be homeschooled by teachers that won't kidnap them or burn down their schools.

 

[low1985]

access to Internet is a human right

 

[ToxicBunny]

He's not wrong... But we need to stop equating access to actually getting something for free.

 

[Papa Smurf]

 

[biometrics]

There's free wifi everywhere. What's the problem?

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Hahaha, national internet is coming ..... no one is allowed private providers

 

[Fuzzbox]

like healthcare and education when you have touched it ,it has all turned to SHYTE.
You actually mean that another corrupt tender should be awarded to the CADRES.

 

[maeztro]

And then he quotes that mythical jobs that doesn't exist yet line:
We need to prepare our young people for jobs that haven’t yet been created.”
This is a patently false concept.

 

[Swa]

I agree with him in principle. But it doesn't mean everyone should have a 100Mbps fibre line. Wifi hotspots are enough for the general population.

 

[pinball wizard]

Sure, National Internet service.

Like China and North Korea. Great idea.

 

[Milano]

Duh! Naturally a country with smart cities and bullet trains will have broadband access for all.

Btw Tito I personally really liked your ideas for digging SA out of the trash can but that bitchslap you received from the unions appeared to knock your teeth out.

 

[Urist]

Like China and North Korea. Great idea.

With a great firewall and limited to anc propaganda, and an AI surveillance that gives you social credit.

No, meant using the sabc infrastructure and money to provide wifi hotspots instead of crappy TV. People will still use ISPs because like everything else, The govt provided service will suck and be unreliable.
Maybe kids can then be able to watch youtube tutorials made by teachers and people who know how to do basic math.
Sacb can pull a t-series on themselves and broadcast their crappy content on youtube as well.

 

[noxibox]

And then he quotes that mythical jobs that doesn't exist yet line:
We need to prepare our young people for jobs that haven’t yet been created.”
This is a patently false concept.

That's not really what it means.

 

[Gaz{M}]

As Government, we are doing everything in our power to prevent the spread of Internet access.

Literally, they control access to spectrum and public servitudes, enforce stupid quota nonsense and tenders and go out of their way to debate things to death and not implement anything that can increase broadband availability.

 

[Hellhound105]

I vote for free beer next.

If I may, free Sex would be nice

 

[Hemi300c]

Because Jan van Riebeeck made SA so big free transport should also be "rightfulized"

 

[reactor_sa]

I vote for free beer next.

And free electricity for all, not just the thieves.

 

[DXL]

It sickens me when ANC ministers talk.

To date not one has done something for the POOR yet they all speak with the same Voice using the poor to glorify themselves.

Just ask them what have they done ?