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South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.

Icasa wants mobile operators to check their subscribers’ fingerprints or faces against home affairs records.

Vodacom Group CTO Dejan Kastelic says South Africa could switch off 3G within two years if operators act together.

ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi answers Wapa’s Paul Colmer on the operators’ rural infrastructure exemption application.

Letting big operators coordinate rural roll-outs would leave many communities with one provider and no alternative.

The law must be amended to accelerate broadband connectivity in South Africa, an industry lobby group has said.

Telecoms industry body ACT has called for ‘Fair Share’ and lighter regulations to help sustain infrastructure investments.

The telecommunications industry is concerned that a request that it receive diesel rebates has been ignored.

South Africa’s telecommunications industry has called for urgent action by government and regulators to address the country’s worsening power situation.