Starlink has 10 000 satellites and a six-year head-start, yet rival Amazon Leo may beat it to market in South Africa.
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Herotel will distribute Amazon Leo satellite broadband in South Africa – sidestepping the licensing trap snaring rival Starlink.
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.
Solly Malatsi insists nobody influenced him into pursuing a policy his party, the DA, had already promised.
Operators must warn subscribers twice before deactivating a dormant Sim under new Icasa numbering rules.
Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
The regulator says it cannot issue new network licences for now, pointing operators towards buying existing ones.
Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.