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Introduction

According to the Cabinet decision of 18 April 2007 Sentech and Infraco can compliment one another in many ways in meeting the country's telecommunications challenges with ease. Current Status and Footprint

Tier 2 Metro Access Sentech - M ire/ess Broadband Service are in Metro olitan areas slide 18-19 of DPE

The DPE statement was based on Points of Presence (PoP) published on Sentech's website which only refers to MyWireless product coverage as indicated on Slide 18 -19

Sentech would like to bring the Committee's attention that some of Sentech's broadband services using other technologies cover mostly rural and under serviced areas.

The Service

The said broadband technologies deployed cover the following footprint

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Commercial marketing arrangement that will ensure transparent pricing p5

To ensure that low costs are passed down to subscribers, the agreement will require Neotel to provide transparent pricing of Infra co's access charges to Neote!.

The Portfolio Committee is requested to ensure that the State intervention through Infraco is able to reduce the high costs of Telecommunications in South Africa. Sentech would like to get fibre Optic capacity directly from Infraco and not through third party.

This Satellite Broadband network currently have extensive number of remote terminal for customers sites for various ICT applications with a potential to grow by 100% with potential business in the pipeline.

Some of our Customers with Big Networks currently making use of our platform are as follows:

. Commercial

To Currently have +- 600 sites with majority of the satellite shops being in rural areas were there is little or no connectivity

. Department of Home Affairs

o Currently have 149 terminals for mobile trucks and boarder post roviding services for the Department of Home Affairs where they do not have facilities or infrastructure to provide connectivity enabling them to verify tourists' details passing through South African borders by accessing central database as well as vehicle clearances

. SAPO

SAPO currently has 30 sites connected with a numbers to grow beyond 100 sites by November 2007.

. Schools e-Service

o The Schools e-Service project gives schools a networked LAB environment and provides learners' access to the Internet and email. Each school is connected to a central network via satellite connections, which is managed by Sentech and currently has 1100 sites.

o Each school has a managed LAN environment and run Microsoft operating systems and supported applications. The LAN environment consists of Windows XP workstations, Windows server 2003 and has printing facilities

. Department of Education

o Currently has 10 sites rolled growing to 600 sites within the next 6

months .Most of these schools are in deep rural and under serviced areas

. Universal Services And Access AQency of South Africa

o Sentech provides Internet connectivity to 46 Thusong Centres around the

country. These centres are designed to provide community with access to

e-govemment as well as other on-line services.