<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Dear Dr. Ndemo,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Thanks for the detailing but it would be good if you breakdown what the "Open Access Model' would be in terms of teams and the terrestrial network?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Would it be there the infrastructure would be seperate from services so that the entirities that build and operate the infrastructure would be restricted from competing with the service providers and that the price approach would be high volumes against low margins?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">By the way what happened to the idea of having 20% on the stock market for non-deep pocket folks like myself.....:-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Eric here</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:32:44 +0300 (EAT)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">From: <A href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fwd: SV: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Undersea cable plan</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">tangled in acrimony inSouth Africa</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">To: <A href="mailto:eric@afrispa.org">eric@afrispa.org</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial Narrow; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Dear Alex,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Telkon will not own Teams. The Government of Kenya will own 40% stake in</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">the Teams SPV while regional operators and investors will own 45%. The</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">remaining 15% shall be owned by Etisalat. The Government shall ensure</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">open access in both Teams and the Terrestrial Networks to enable both</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">large and small enterprises to compete.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Do not worry about the sale of TKL since we have not sold it yet and we</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">shall not sell it if the deal is not good.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Regards</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Ndemo.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Courier; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> Before quickly "thirding", I urge on the need to have</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> light shed on TEAMS investment structure, otherwise we</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> could end up never getting the envisaged cheap</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> bandwidth.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> Why? After 51% of Telkom Kenya is sold to British</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> Telcom (or another) then whoever will have the cable</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> ownership transfered to them thus could dictate what</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> the final price will be.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> Little Telkom sale (Shs 5 Billion) is happening just</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> when the promising CDMA is getting rolled out. Going</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> by last year's Safaricom profits, the sale value is</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> also Kidogo Sana.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> Alex</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">> --- Kai Wulff </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> wrote:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> I second that!</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> It is comforting to know that SA will provide</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> security to Africa by</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> insisting on a majority ownership of the cables!</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> I am sure this attitude will change once Kenya</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> receives capacity @ less than</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> USD 100,- per M ..</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Kai</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> ----- Original Message -----</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> From: </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=bitange@jambo.co.ke"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><bitange@jambo.co.ke></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> To: </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 14:44</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fwd: SV: [AfrISPA.Discuss]</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Undersea cable plan</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> tangled in acrimony inSouth Africa</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> I used to have a difficult time explaining to fellow</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Kenyans that it was</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> very difficult dealing with our brothers in SA</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> because at every meeting</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> goal posts kept on shifting. Perharps now everybody</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> understands that the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> veto power in the NEPAD protocol was a control tool.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Below please find</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> additional material.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Ndemo.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Cables require local ownership BY DAMARIA SENNE &</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> CHRISTELLE DU TOIT</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=mailto:damaria@itweb.co.za"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><mailto:damaria@itweb.co.za></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> [ Johannesburg, 10</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> September 2007 ]</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> South Africa requires that all undersea cables</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> landing here be majority</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> owned by South Africans, says communications</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Minister Ivy</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Matsepe-Casaburri.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Speaking at the Southern African Telecommunications</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Networks and</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Applications Conference (Satnac) 2007, in Mauritius,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> this morning,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Matsepe-Casaburri said government was happy with</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> indications that</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> investors plan to land cables in the country.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> However, she will soon announce new landing</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> guidelines that require that</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> "all cables " landing in SA be majority owned by</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> South Africans, she said.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> The guidelines will also be consistent with SA's</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> foreign policy and take</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> the security of the country, and the African</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> continent, into</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> consideration, she said.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> "Every cable landing or leaving SA should</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> incorporate in it the Nepad [New</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Partnership for Africa's Development] Broadband</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Infrastructure Network."</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Security measures are important, given the state of</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> our insecure world,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> she added.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Matsepe-Casaburri said that she instructed Dep.of</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Communications</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Dir-General Lyndall Shope-Mafole to propose the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> landing guidelines to the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Interim Inter-Governmental Assembly for discussion.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> She also noted that</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> her department studied the communications</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> regulations of other countries</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> when drafting the landing guidelines, ensuring they</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> are consistent with</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> international trends.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Determination expected</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> BMI-TechKnowledge senior analyst Richard Hurst says</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> the implications of</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> the ownership stipulations are that "those who do</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> end up rolling out</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> cables will have to do so via partnerships". He</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> cites Seacom and Neotel's</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> interaction as an example of this, where "Neotel</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> basically would control</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> the landing rights of Seacom in SA".</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> According to Hurst, "government is trying to hedge</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> its bets", but the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> stipulations set out by the minister have generally</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> been expected. He says</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> South African companies should benefit from the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> directives, as should the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> consumer.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> "It should open up access to those cables and bring</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> prices down." He adds</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> that, as the international community moves towards</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> always-on broadband, SA</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> will also increasingly need high-speed capacity.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> However he reiterates:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> "The more bandwidth we have, the better."</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Investor support</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Meanwhile, Matsepe-Casaburri said SA was convinced</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> it was on the right</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> path to break away from the Eassy (Eastern Africa</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Submarine Cable System)</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> cable project and support the Nepad Broadband</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Infrastructure Network, as</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> well as initiating its own undersea cable systems.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> She said there was strong support from potential</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> investors in the Nepad</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Broadband (?) Infrastructure Network. "Instead of</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> people running away</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> from us, we have a lot of support from investors."</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> SA and other African governments broke away from the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Eassy project because</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> larger operators taking part in the initiative</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> bought such large</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> quantities of capacity that there would never be</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> fair access for smaller</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> operators, she noted.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> EASSY project was not in line with the Nepad</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> objective, which was to</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> facilitate fair and open access for all telecoms</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> providers to lower the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> cost of telecoms on the continent, she said. She</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> noted that SA's</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Parliament had ratified the Nepad Broadband</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> Infrastructure Network</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> protocol.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> > fyi from the AfrISPA discuss list....</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> ></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> ></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> > Begin forwarded message:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> ></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> From: "Anders Comstedt" </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=anders@ssvl.kth.se"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><anders@ssvl.kth.se></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Date: 9 September 2007 21:52:19 GMT+03:00</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> To: </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://mail.zanet.co.za/Xf7769d92cc98cf9efaf31a89/newmsg.cgi?mbx=Main&to=Discuss@afrispa.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020DE"><Discuss@afrispa.org></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Subject: SV: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Undersea cable</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> plan tangled in</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> acrimony inSouth Africa</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Reply-To: <A href="mailto:Discuss@afrispa.org">Discuss@afrispa.org</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Frank,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> You are right that everyone else but RSA needs a</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> cable to RoW much,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> much</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> more than the good folks south, also that the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> thing has got stuck in</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> political concerns and power games. The good</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> thing is, however,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> that the</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> general consensus on the needs, commercial impact</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> and development</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> leverage</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> of a widely available optical fibre cable has</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> shifted from cold to</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> warm.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Technically, there is no need for an East African</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> submarine cable</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> south</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> beyond Maputo at all, as there is well protected</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> optical fibre</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Maputo -</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Pretoria on the power lines. Which, btw, RSA has</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> effectively</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> prevented open</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> & fair use of during several years, effectively</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> leaving Maputo on</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> VSAT for a</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> much longer time than necessary. So SA could</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> connect that route,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> already</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> today, to any cable from the north that lands</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> close to Maputo.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> Now two small issues:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> First, RSA companies are major stakeholders in</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> any submarine cable</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> proposal</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> that has emerged the last couple of years,</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> dominant to the extent</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> that it</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> has made other parties concerned on who actually</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> will control a</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> cable system</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> >> supposed to be a joint project with some 23</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">>> participants. 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