Finance minister Tito Mboweni will “work relentlessly” with communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to ensure additional radio frequency spectrum is allocated as soon as possible.
The chairman of communications regulator Icasa will stay on in the role because the telecommunications and broadcasting authority claims it is not empowered to remove him.
The chairman of communications regulator Icasa’s powerful decision-making council has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for money laundering and fraud, it was reported on Friday.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has announced in parliament that she has withdrawn the contentious Electronic Communications Amendment Bill.
Communications regulator Icasa said on Tuesday that it is naming its new head office in Centurion, Pretoria after the divisive former minister of communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
The Competition Commission has elected not to refer complaints against pay-television operator MultiChoice and its SuperSport subsidiary to the Competition Tribunal.
Vodacom Group’s latest trading update, for the quarter ended December 2018, makes for sobering reading, particularly for those invested in the telecommunications sector.
The weak South African economy, coupled with consumers “optimising” promotional data, has led to a surprise decline in Vodacom’s service revenue in the quarter ended 31 December 2019.
Streaming services pose a significant threat to MultiChoice’s future growth potential, but they are by no means the only risks exercising the minds of the pay-television operator’s management team.
Communications regulator Icasa will hold public hearings later this month to determine what its role should be in regulating cybersecurity in South Africa.