SENTECH SOC LIMITED

BROADBAND AND SCHOOLS CONNECTIVITY

PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON

TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SERVICES:

12 October 2014

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COMPANY PURPOSE:Vision, Mission And Values Statements

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VISION

To be a world-class provider of sustainable

communications platform services in South Africa

and the rest of the African Continent.

MISSION

To provide open access and interoperable

communications platform services that enable

affordable universal access to digital content

services, in the context of South Africa’s socio-

political imperatives as a developmental state.

VALUES

•Integrity: We act with honesty, fairness and openness;

•Quality Customer Service: We are committed to

proactively ensuring high values of customer satisfaction

and building a relationship based on trust;

•Innovation: We endeavour to develop and support

creativity and responsible risk-taking;

•Accountability: We deliver on our promises and take

responsibility for our actions; and

•Social Responsibility: We endeavour to fulfill our

mandate in a manner that benefits our employees,

customers, suppliers, communities and the environment

in all the areas that the Company operates in. 

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COMPANY PURPOSE:Shareholder Priorities

• In preparing this Corporate Plan, SENTECH is further guided by the Shareholder’s MTSF Strategic Goals

for this planning period, which are:

o Strategic Goal 1: Enable the maximisation of investment in the ICT sector and create new

competitive business opportunities for the growth of the ICT industry for socio-economic

development;

o Strategic Goal 2: Ensure that ICT infrastructure is accessible, robust, reliable, affordable and

secure to meet the needs of the country and its people;

o Strategic Goal 3: Accelerate the socio-economic development of South Africans and facilitate the

building of an inclusive information Society through partnerships with business and civil society and

three-spheres of Government;

o Strategic Goal 4: Improve Departmental performance and enhance the role of ICT SOEs as the

delivery arms of Government; and

o Strategic Goal 5: Contribute to the global ICT Agenda prioritising Africa’s development.

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2014-2015 BUSINESS STRATEGY:Very Small Aperture Terminal Wireless Service (VSAT)

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• Despite making significant inroads in enabling broadband connectivity to the key Government and Public

Entities such as the Department of Education (KwaZulu-Natal and Free State), Centlec, Ethniks and the

Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (“USAASA”) for the ICT Hubs; sustainability of the

VSAT service remains precarious.

• Going into the 2014 – 2017 MTEF period, SENTECH will focus the VSAT service on supporting

Government-led ICT initiatives, in particular the rollout of end-to-end communications network services to

rural schools and Community Telecentres in partnership with USAASA. SENTECH will also look at

alternative and more affordable satellite providers for this product to ensure that VSAT is affordable to

customers and can compete in the tough market place.

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:MTEF 2014 - 2017

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STRATEGIC GOAL(What We Want To

Achieve)

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES(How We Will Achieve It)

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

(How We Will Measure Performance

PERFORMANCE TARGETS

FY14/15 FY15/16 FY16/17

SG 1: Ensure that ICT infrastructure is accessible, robust, reliable, affordable and secure to meet the needs of the country and its people.

Ensure universal access

connectivity to public

institutions

Number of VSAT Terminals

Installed135 225 270

Number of Public Sector ICT

Infrastructure Services

Installed/Enabled Through

CSI Programme

14 14 14

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USAASA

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The number of USAASA Institutions that have been successfully rolled out per province since the inception of the project

Description Number of Sites

Eastern Cape 6

Mpumalanga 8

Northern Cape 3

Gauteng 10

North West 4

Western Cape 3

Free State 6

Limpopo 13

KwaZulu - Natal 9

Total 62

PROVINCIAL DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION

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The number of DoE Schools that have been successfully rolled out per province since the inception of the project

Description Number of Sites

Free State 27

KwaZulu - Natal 89

Total 116

CORPORATE SOCIAL INVESTMENT

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The number of CSI Schools that have been successfully rolled out per province since the inception of the project

Description

Eastern Cape 8

Mpumalanga 7

Northern Cape 3

Gauteng 6

North West 5

Western Cape 2

Free State 7

Limpopo 6

KwaZulu - Natal 14

Total 58

POINTS OF PRESENCE:National

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THANK YOU

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