Mr. Peter Hendrick:

We are working with a mobile and broadband task force. Within that task force set up between the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Rural and Community Development, we are looking at black spots. The challenge with mobile networks is that you might put up a base station but if you have no way to get the traffic back from that tower or base station, where typically it was a line-of-sight wireless link, you cannot put a base station in an area and that is why you get a black spot.

Bringing fibre to those base stations enables the provision of mobile coverage as well. We are engaged in that task force and also with the three mobile operators concerning providing the infrastructure to facilitate mobile coverage.