Government has not given up on a plan to enforce network neutrality rules on South African operators, despite there being no reference to the controversial subject in the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill
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The recently published Electronic Communications Amendment Bill proposes that mobile network operators and other vertically integrated telecommunications firms allow Internet…
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The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), the body that represents most of South Africa’s ISPs, has again reiterated that it supports the concept of network neutrality. It said in a statement on Friday that there should be “no blocking