FibreCo’s CTO on need more effective industry collaboration stru
FibreCo’s CTO on need more effective industry collaboration stru
Marius Mostert, CTO of Fibreco Telecommunications, a Convergence Partners’’ investee, said that the industry needed to re-examine a more effective collaboration structure to meet the current realities facing it.
In particular, the Satnac conference has debated and discussed many of the ideas that are now a reality. Broadband and digital inclusion emerged again during the 2013 Satnac, held in Stellenbosch this week.
“So why are we still talking about broadband and digital inclusion?” he questioned, when the country had moved from simple information-sharing platforms, to content-rich social applications, and evolved from simple voice and text technologies to media-rich platforms.
He recommended engaging leadership involved in the industry, including heads of business, the government, the regulator and policymakers, to advance future developments together and to coordinate efforts and enabling policies.
Collaboration was required to establish the required infrastructure to deliver broadband in underserved regions, as the task could not remain the responsibility of individual companies guided by purely economic principles.
“Common or shared infrastructure at all levels of the network is inevitable,” he said, adding that collaboration should occur without destroying market forces.