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From: "Eric Osiakwan" <eric@afrispa.org>
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Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Fibre-for-africa] Where are things now, really?
Anriette, the Kenyans where never offboard. They only announce another
national fiber project and the rest was "propaganda" by those who wanted
to pitch the Kenyan against the South Africa government - a rather sad
initiative.
The way forward now is, you dont need any LICENSE to INVEST in EASSy. The
IGA would authenticate investors to be sure they are legimate businesses
or organisations or investors from their countries of residence. Again
the governments through the Ministries (in charge of ICTs and or
Infrastructure) are not going to ask you to present a license, they may
rather require some documentation to prove their you are legally existing
entity or enterprise.
The detailed business plan of equity to debt is being finalised but when
i last checked the consideration was 30 to 70 respectively - this may
change. Am not financially knowledgable to be in that space.
I was in Rwanda the other day and indications are that most of the
Consortium members have come to terms with this new development but as
usual a few still belong to the school of thought that "their legitimate
business" has been snatched away from them by the governments...:-)
EASSy is now a Public Private Partnership so the UbuntuNet Alliance,
AfrISPA Members and all those who have money to invest, please get ready
and start syncing with your respect governments.
Eric here
On Jun 11, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
Hallo all
So the ministers have signed an agreement (on 7 June) and apparently the
Kenyans are back on board, and an SPV will be created and registered in
Rwanda.
What is not clear to me is how all the original consortium members feel
about
this, particularly the private sector investors?
Any updates?
Anriette
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