Johannesburg, South Africa

While the scramble for broadband licences, spectrum, and target markets is well and truly on, very few people are stopping to think about the nuts and bolts of building and then operating and maintaining the physical infrastructure on which broadband will be delivered, says Howard Earley, Plessey Chief Operating Officer.

The Minister of Communications, Mr Radhakrishna L. Padayachie (Roy) will lead a South African ICT delegation to the ITU World Telecom taking place in Geneva, Switzerland from the 24 – 27 October 2011.