ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi answers Wapa’s Paul Colmer on the operators’ rural infrastructure exemption application.
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Letting big operators coordinate rural roll-outs would leave many communities with one provider and no alternative.
MTN alone has been pushing 90 million Sim cards a year, and says the base is riddled with bad registrations.
Nomvuyiso Batyi warns Icasa has consulted operators but not the local government bodies that will have to apply the rules.
Industry body ACT used day one of Icasa’s rapid deployment hearings to demand binding municipal deadlines.
Operators say the rapid deployment rules, now in draft form, ignore the municipal wayleave bottleneck.
South African operators have agreed interim measures to curb Sim fraud while pressing government for Rica reforms.
The home affairs platform uses liveness tests and biometric matching to identify ghost workers on state payrolls.
Foreign providers sell Rica avoidance as an eSim feature, exposing a gap in South Africa’s Sim-registration rules.
Industry body says the fiscus-first model is starving the very sector South Africa depends on for connectivity.