Government eyes April 2023 to establish state-owned Digital Infrastructure Company. GovernmentEntities merger telecoms infrastructure
Government plans to have the State Digital Infrastructure Company established by April 2023.
This is according to communications and digital technologies minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, briefly commenting on Sentech’s future at Friday’s media briefing on the“From April next year, they [Sentech] will be the State Digital Infrastructure Company,” said Ntshavheni. “We’ve gotten the Cabinet approvals and are finalising a few things, so that they [Sentech] take over the role of the State Digital Infrastructure Company of the country.
This will be the result of the merger of signal distributor Sentech and wholesale infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco .for some time, backed by the communications ministry’s predecessors, including former ministers Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Dr Siyabonga Cwele., it was revealed the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies would submit to Cabinet the Bill motivating for the establishment of the state-owned digital infrastructure entity.
In addition, the company is planned to have capabilities for backhaul fibre, as well as access infrastructure, according to the DCDT.
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