Government's haste to establish new broadband supplier InfraCo will more than likely take longer than expected, not because of the size of the project, but due to legislation and policy mix-ups of its own making.

Earlier this month, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin set the market alight with the news that InfraCo would be established to cut the costs of telecommunications, especially broadband connectivity. His statement was spurred on by parliamentary questions from the official opposition, the Democratic Alliance.

His statement then was the first clear indication that InfraCo was “a go” after almost a year of speculation spurred on by a number of government announcements, not least Department of Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri's 2006 Budget Speech, that something was in the works.