Following the completion of the rollout of its next-generation network in June last year, the eThekwini municipality has started selling excess capacity to local internet service providers at wholesale rates.

Jacquie Subban, eThekwini head of geographic information and policy, says the municipality has appointed Dimension Data to manage and maintain its network for the next three years. The company will also handle all commercial dealings in terms of signing up customers, although Subban says the legality will be with the city. “All final decisions and contracts will be with the municipality.”