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FIBRE AS A FIFTH UTILITY – 14 September 2018 SALGA

VISION

Why BAOBAB

PROBLEM DEFINITION

• 1. South Africa have abdicated their legal and regulatory

rights to own ICT infrastructure and leveraging it as an income generating Utility Service

• 2. Saldanha Bay Municipality is very poorly provisioned and

serviced with modern ICT infrastructure

• 3. The legacy telecommunications infrastructure is totally
• utdated and does not enable economic development,

job creation and enablement of the community especially the youth

• 4. Broadband services alone is not an affordable option for

local government

PROBLEM DEFINITION

Broadband approach

• Selfish ROI models
• Cost of execution leaves

the consumer taking brunt of paying high services fees.

• Wayleave management and

application, including civils is disruptive

• End User uptake is minimal

Innovation

• Municipal Centric
• Up‐Stream thinking
• Next generation business

model securing sustainable basic service delivery that is not merely a broadband dependency. Municipality Landscape

• Limiting Regulatory conditions
• Added Utility revenue streams
• Sustainable and future ready for

basic service delivery

• Community driven
• Core responsibilities
• Assists and abets Socio‐

economic drivers Current ICT Landscape

• Merely a Broadband Policy driver and does

not embrace all in a community by community basis

• SA Stats +‐5% connected on Fibre
• Government objectives is a 100%

penetration

• Lack of speed in deployment,

investment & cost of execution Operator Challenges

• High cost of

execution

• Duplicated sector

investments

• Driven by Value

Added Services Municipal Challenges

• Declining Revenues
• Require further

sustainable revenues to serve communities & objectives

• Wayleave & servitude

rights RSA Challenges

• Poor penetration
• Large geographical

area Project Baobab

• Solving medium & long‐

term wicked Municipal & Community problems

Why Broadband is important

1.10% Broadband penetration = 1% Increase in GDP 2.New job creation capabilities and new types of jobs 3.Broadening of educational opportunities 4.Enhanced public service delivery via E‐ Government Services 5.Enhances Rural Economic Development 6.Open up infrastructure investment opportunities

PROJECT TIMELINE

USB SPL Innovation Lab Project Proposal September 2016 Council Approval December 2016 Project Due Diligence Completed February 2017 Project Initiation & Fibre Backbone Feb – Dec 2017 Develop Business Case for Fibre as an Utility Home / Business Drop Installation December 2017 Platform & Systems Commissioning February 2018

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Where we currently are

ZONES 1 & 2

ZONES 2,3 & 6

Zone 1 & 2 statistics

Zone 3

End-User

E2E Network Architecture

P-OLT 7360 FX4

Terraco

Distribution (ODN) Residential Residential Residential library Clinic Municipal Office Municipal Office

ONT ONT

SBM

5520 AMS NetAdm in

ISPx ISPy

L2 Traffic L2 Traffic L2 Traffic Peering Router

EU Por tal SP Por tal

• MPLS
• EOAM
• Embedded OTDR
• GPON
• PTP
• Type‐B PON Redundancy

5530- NAF*

Management Data Data Data

SNMP

ACTIONS FOLLOWED ON THE POC

• Build the bac kbo ne ne two rk
• Planning the ne two rk de sig n fo rthe ro ute
• Sc anning fo r infrastruc ture
• Apply fo r wayle ave s
• Start mic ro tre nc hing in se c tio ns
• I

nstall pipe s and manho le s

• Re instate ro ad se rvic e
• I

nstall fibre in pipe s

• Obtain e nd-use r Sig n Up

CONTINUED

• By Appo intme nt:
• Surve y the site s
• I

nstall de vic e s and Ac tive se rvic e s

• Obtain e nd-use r fe e dbac k via
• On-L

ine s Surve ys

• Site Visits
• Se tup a de mo fac ility at the AM Sc ie nc e Ce ntre
• Sho wc ase I

nno vatio ns c re ate d via the POC

VIEW ON THE GROUND

VIEW ON THE GROUND

SMART METERING

• Smart meters were installed at certain homes

to demonstrate the functionality

• This smart meter allows the citizen to check

their consumption on a daily basis

• Leak detection
• Demand management
• Electronic remote shutoff of water supply

SMART METERING

SMART METERING

FREE END USER VALUE ADDED SERVICES

• SBM is not a n ISP and has now interest in supplying ISP

related services

• To help individuals to experience the fibre we added VAS from

sponsored ISP for a 3 month period.

• The VAS services include but are not limited to:

– High Speed, Secure and reliable INTERNET Service – TV Services – Video Streaming Services – E‐Learning Content – Municipal Service Communication – Demonstration Centre at AM science centre

FREE END USER VALUE ADDED SERVICES

FREE END USER VALUE ADDED SERVICES

FREE END USER VALUE ADDED SERVICES

FREE END USER VALUE ADDED SERVICES

THE COUNCIL RESOLUTION

• That the report and annexures be noted;
• The POC report back is in relation to the council approved business

plan; The full value proposition of the 200 end point will be tabled in after completion and post connection;

• That open access fibre network infrastructure be adopted by council

as the next-generation utility infrastructure as a vehicle to create new revenue;

• That council adopt the open access network as a basic utility service

and that it form part of basic infrastructure development plans if and when it is viable;

• That the further role out of the fibre infrastructure be phased based
• n financial viability and availability of funds;
• That the project be described in more detail in the IDP;

FUNDING CHALLENGES

• T

he munic ipality will no t have o wn funding to inve st fo r the c apital layo ut with all the c o mmitme nts o n o the r pro je c ts.

• I

CT infrastruc ture no t se e n as c ritic al infrastruc ture

• No t se e n as a basic se rvic e making g rant

funding diffic ult

• What is the so lutio n? ? ? ?

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WHAT IS THE BENEFITS?

• Freedom to choose you provider – open access infrastructure is
• pen to all
• Reduced cost of communication – 48 % of the cost is for the

physical network installation

• Easy to switch between providers
• Allows for better e‐government solutions
• Makes cross subsidising lower income groups possible for the

municipality

• Smart city/town concepts
• Revenue enhancement
• Better broadband penetration and uptake
• Municipal owned television stations

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