9 December 2024, MyBroadband, Daniel Puchert
This is according to Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird, who told the SABC that the Post Office’s business rescue plan constrained the rollout of set-top boxes to people in rural areas.
“You’ve had the poorest of the poor expected to go to Post Offices to collect their set-top boxes and register, and at the same time, you’ve had over three hundred branches close around the country,” Bird said.
“Where are those Post Offices most likely to be? They are the ones that are in rural areas where your most marginalised people need to get them.”