Access to data will increase, and prices will fall, only if government gets out of the way and allows companies to have more spectrum and compete more freely. By Christo Hattingh.
A bill that will introduce a radical overhaul of legislation governing South Africa’s ICT sector should scrapped in favour of tweaking existing legislation, the Free Market Foundation again argued on Monday. The foundation
ICT industry veteran Adrian Schofield, programme consultant at the Institute of Information Technology Professionals – and a past president of the organisation – has slammed the ANC’s policies on telecommunications
The department of telecommunications & postal services is actively redrafting the controversial Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, with the minister, Siyabonga Cwele, set to outline more details in the
The South African government could raise significant money from the sale of radio frequency spectrum, especially frequency bands used in commercial applications such as cellphones, television and radio. Government
Spectrum is the lifeblood of the telecommunications industry. The more “high-demand” spectrum a service provider has, the higher the capacity and better the quality of the service it can provide. Freely tradeable spectrum
Cost of data is an emotive subject. This is a critically important week for all users. Media and consumers should take note. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa is attempting to interfere with data bundles and
Civil society groups Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition have blasted government’s plan to create a wholesale open-access network, or Woan, saying in a submission to the department of telecommunications
Government’s radical Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce into law many aspects of the controversial national integrated ICT policy white paper, will undermine the industry and lead to poor and inadequate
Telecommunications & postal services director-general Robert Nkuna said on Tuesday that government does not want to destroy South Africa’s big telecoms operators, despite strong objections to draft legislation that the
