Consortiums line up for proposed Nepad cable

There were "several" consortiums that had shown interest in getting involved with the proposed information and communication technology broadband infrastructure for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, the minister of communications, said yesterday.

Matsepe-Casaburri said the government was not delaying the process by insisting on an African majority shareholding for the under-sea cable. The minister did not identify the consortiums.

The cable will compete with the EASSy cable, which South Africa and Kenya withdrew from after cost-related disagreements.

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