As can be deducted from the SA connect vision, the Fibre optic network building is big business. It provides the back bone for the governing party’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution” – preparing S Africa for the Digital Economy, driven by the increased use of, and adaptation of ICT tools in all human activities. At the founda-tion of the 4th Industrial Revolution lies the universal internet access and roll out of broad band to reach all areas of S Africa – no person should be denied access to services due to lack of access to ICT. Thus, the existing infrastructure gaps will continue to be a focus of the infrastructure roll-out programme for both the public and the private sectors.
It is for these reasons that the Big Four mobile operators are scrambling to build infrastructure all over S Africa – spending an estimated R32 billion in 2017 (Firm Logic, Aug 2017, techfinacials.co.za). This figure is expected to balloon to R100 billion if you include Fibre network providers such as Vumatel, DFA, Vox, Openserve, etc. MTN is the biggest investor at R11.5 billion, Telkom – R8.6 billion, Vodacom – R8.5 billion and CellC at R3.5 billion.
Sadly, Black owned companies are receiving nothing, to very tiny share of that infrastructure building pie, even when they are well equipped management-wise to deliver good service. The majority of customers are black, so why are black owned companies not being given the opportunities? There is no willingness to support black owned network builders like Malose Group.
With proper resourcing Malose Group aims to play in the same league as the likes of MCT Telecommuni-cations. We would like to achieve at least 1000 km per annum by year Three (3)