Private Sector Expectations and Priorities
The recommendations offered by the private sector on the enablers for private sector participation and priorities for the ICT sector include:
- reducing the high barriers to entry, including the high costs of Right of Way permits and the multiple taxes and licenses required;
- reviewing the high cost of deployment and lack of supporting infrastructure (especially in power and transport);
- addressing the dearth of local ICT-related skills and competence;
- implementing the Open Access Shared Infrastructure framework;
- reducing the costs of duct building and duct infrastructure leasing;
- accelerating Right of Way permits;
- harmonising multiple taxes, and reducing taxes on computing hardware and locally produced software;
- integrating ICT infrastructure into estates and commercial districts;
- harmonising the BTS roll-out;
- releasing the spectrum for LTE/wireless data;
- ensuring consistent minimum provision of 18 hours of power supply per day;
- unbundling of metro access;
- unlocking broadband to cater for bandwidth issues;
- deepening fibre-optic technology; and
- expanding fibre-optic links to neighbouring capitals and submarine cables.