Department of Communications rolls R200 million to Broadband Access Fund - to fund Internet for 13 million households

[Jan]

R200 million to supply broadband for 13 million households

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has rolled over R200 million from its budget to provide 13 million households with broadband.

This is according to National Treasury’s individual budget vote documents that accompanied finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statements for 2022.

 

[Sapphiron]

R200mil for 13million households

Better form a committee to see how to choose the 1mil households to spend the R80million on.

Then put it out to tender to find the best cadre to contact spending the R12million to connect 100k homes with

Then finally, we can have a big PR event upon projects successful completion of the final phase of R1.5million spent on connecting 80 households.

Just remember to pack a generator and portable loo, because the houses we connect may not have electricity or sanitation.

 

[FaSMaN]

During the first phase, it aimed to reach a million people by building Wi-Fi hotspots within walking distance from where they live and through direct home connections in low-income areas.

Is there a breakdown of the cost and equipment used for these hotspots, it sounds like a bit of cop out as your essentially just putting a LTE router in a mall, then calling it a day as now thousands of people have access to it and can walk there (and do daily) ....

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

“[This] will enable 13 million households to access broadband internet at an affordable rate and competitive speed,” the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies budget vote states.

That works out to R15.38 per household — not much money with which to roll out broadband infrastructure, or even build Wi-Fi access points within walking distance of several homes.

Its short-term goal is to offer 10GB to every household by 2023/24.

10Gb for R15.38... where do we sign up?

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

This is going to be the new digital TV migration

 

[3WA]

Imagine if they all join MYBB. Every time we make jokes about the poor mooching off the taxpayer, they'll tune us kak.

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Imagine if they all join MYBB. Every time we make jokes about the poor mooching off the taxpayer, they'll tune us kak.

Only until their 10Gb data allocation is depleted, so roughly the first week of the month

 

[konfab]

Only until their 10Gb data allocation is depleted, so roughly the first week of the month

My house usage would consume that before the first day of the month is finished

 

[Danie_V]

Just over R15 per household.... that seems like an incredible bargain. Where else in the world can it be as cheap as this. And we get so ripped off for things costing double or more because of corruption etc. Hopefully the Minister guaranteed this as the capped cost, otherwise she'll pay the difference for overruns!

 

[now05ster]

Oh, you guys are so negative...

 

[TheChamp]

Is there a breakdown of the cost and equipment used for these hotspots, it sounds like a bit of cop out as your essentially just putting a LTE router in a mall, then calling it a day as now thousands of people have access to it and can walk there (and do daily) ....

I think we might take the convenience of walking to the mall for granted since we have so many of them around but it's not the case for millions of people.

 

[Virex]

I assume nothing will be spent on actually connecting homes. It it will be looted. Probably already being looted
as I typed this.

It's Tender time

 

[boboudts]

Only until their 10Gb data allocation is depleted, so roughly the first week of the month

The first day more like it!

 

[freematrix]

This makes no sense. 200Mill to endevour to do something good where the numbers just dont add up for it to actually work but we can throw a R10 billion here and R10 billion there to SOE's to keep them alive which never adds up.

 

[GhostSixFour]

R200mil for 13million households

Better form a committee to see how to choose the 1mil households to spend the R80million on.

Then put it out to tender to find the best cadre to contact spending the R12million to connect 100k homes with

Then finally, we can have a big PR event upon projects successful completion of the final phase of R1.5million spent on connecting 80 households.

Just remember to pack a generator and portable loo, because the houses we connect may not have electricity or sanitation.

You forgot the bit where the companies that have rolled out succesfully in the past suddenly gets robbed of their equipment or their vehicles get stolen, not forgetting the intimidation etc.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Well, from what we saw they did with R15 mil to build a pavilion in the eastern cape. Then R200 mil will probably look like something like:

or

 

[grok]

Only the string will be stolen & the dove will be a deployed malkop mossie with no sense of direction..

 

[TPM]

Use TV WHITESPACE.... I estimate that only 10% or R20m tops is required.

 

[Thugscub]

Clowns running the circus.
Delusional Idiots.

 

[Ryannza]

Plans for ANC to pocket another 200mil
#AfricanNationalCants