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Phon
e company Telkom is to introduce a special "e-rate" for schools
that will effectively halve the cost of their Internet calls,
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced
yesterday.
Opening debate on her budget vote in the National Assembly, she
said arrangements for this would be finalised between the
communications and education departments over the next few
months.
"From the beginning of the next school year, public schools will be
charged only 50% of the normal rate for their Internet calls.
She said this was being done to "facilitate the adoption and usage
of the Internet" in the country's schools, which would be able to
access needed educational material.
Further, communications, together with the National Treasury, would
"finalise a public-private partnership for the funding of regional
television services that will broadcast in the official languages
that do not find sufficient coverage in the present broadcasting
system".
Matsepe-Casaburri said her department, together with Parliament,
the community radio sector and the Government Communications and
Information Service (GCIS), would launch a satellite communication
network, aimed at communities.
"This network will make it possible for grass roots communities,
through their community stations, to access the workings of
Parliament, government information and services, as well as news
about other communities and general national developments."
She said over the next three years the Post Office would install an
extra 600 public Internet terminals, to enable ordinary people "to
enjoy the convenience of also using the Internet for accessing
government services and information". – Sapa.
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