National Treasury has been leading a market sounding on behalf of Government, with a view to gaining an understanding of the approaches for achieving the targeted 100% broadband coverage by 2020 and the associated fiscal support that may be required to catalyse the rollout.

WAPA was invited to participate in this, earlier in the week. Although there was a DOC representative present, their objective was to look at broadband rollout from a treasury, rather than regulatory point of view.

WAPA is offering the following two training courses in Cape Town: September 6 Monitoring your network using MikroTik's "The Dude" free network monitoring application • Network management intro • SNMP Theory • Pre-install network preparation • Obtaining and Installing The Dude • Initial Configuration • Network Scanning • Building your Network Layout • Client Monitoring Configuration • Dude Notifications • Dude as Netlog Server • Graphing performance • Building custom Functions Cost: R750 for WAPA members / R900 for