Last week, the Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet) announced it had wrapped up the project, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing expansion of high-speed broadband infrastructure across the country. The Kanye project, which took 11 months to complete at a cost of P17.8 million, covers three fibre loops spanning a total distance of more than 80.5 kilometres. The primary brief was to deploy optical fibre within the urban village’s local network, enabling strategic areas such as government institutions, businesses, and hospitality establishments to access the latest high-capacity technology, offering broadband speeds of up to 10Gbps.
Communications, Knowledge, and Technology Minister, Thulaganyo Segokgo, highlighted the government’s ongoing support for BoFiNet in achieving its mandate by providing funding to expand the ICT network across the country. "Our objective is to facilitate BoFiNet in providing an enabling and supporting infrastructure that will make it possible for all sectors of the economy to deliver services to the public efficiently. "This fibre-to-business infrastructure enables government institutions and the business community to achieve their digitisation agenda," Segokgo said at the project handover. For his part, BoFiNet governing body deputy board chairperson, Mothusi Tladi, emphasised their commitment to facilitating citizen economic empowerment through such projects. "BoFiNet worked with a citizen-owned contractor, Teletechnics, as the main contractor to deliver this project," Tladi stated.
