Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
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South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.
South African mobile users spend far less time on 5G than their counterparts in markets like India, a new analysis shows.
Broadcasters have been invited to nominate the engineers who will help shape digital radio in South Africa.
Icasa freed up new Wi-Fi spectrum years ago, but ageing routers and handsets are throttling South Africa’s Wi-Fi upgrade.
The Wi-Fi 8 standard trades the gigabit race for reliability – and Icasa’s new spectrum rules make it matter locally.
A significant set of final regulations from Icasa has opened 900MHz of spectrum to Wi-Fi and private 5G operators.
Government must lean more on the private sector in a fiscally constrained environment, communications minister Solly Malatsi has said.
Industry body says the fiscus-first model is starving the very sector South Africa depends on for connectivity.
Broadcaster-only election rules leave South Africa exposed to the AI-driven disinformation already shaping votes elsewhere.