South Africa: Broadband 'Should Be a Right', say city councils

City councils had a moral duty to spend money rolling out broadband networks to cover all their citizens, in the same way that they had a duty to provide water, sewerage and electricity, speakers at a technology conference have said. The right to broadband Internet access and affordable phone calls was just as great as the right to other municipal services. Any government that did not fulfill that need was doing its citizens disservice, speakers said.