Communications regulator Icasa on Thursday signalled it again intends cutting call termination rates – the prices operators may charge each other to carry calls between their networks.
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A redrafted version of the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill will be presented to cabinet by the end of next month, a move that could finally take South Africa a meaningful step closer to awarding new spectrum licences.
The idea of a wireless open-access network is the central plank of government’s ICT policy. But this requires the release of significant amounts of high-demand spectrum, which regulatory and policy failure prevent from happening.
At Radio Days Africa last week, the deputy minister of communications, Pinky Kekana, stressed the benefits and importance of implementing digital radio in South Africa, calling DAB+ “a game changer”. While the radio industry is gearing
There will be more than a billion 5G subscriptions by the end of 2023 – just over five years from now – accounting for 12% of all mobile subscriptions, according to a new report from Ericsson. The company’s latest
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
By finally publishing regulations on the use of television white spaces, communications regulator Icasa has paved the way for two significant turning points in the country’s roll-out of Internet access to its citizens
The delivery of audio over the Internet could render a plan by communications regulator Icasa to license new digital radio broadcasters moot, Primedia, which already owns several commercial FM and AM radio
Following the successful trials in South Africa of digital radio broadcasting technologies, communications minister Nomvula Mokonyane said on Monday that she will issue a policy directive to the regulator, Icasa
Following complaints lodged by Cell C and MTN, the Competition Commission has investigated and cleared wireless broadband operator Rain’s agreement with Vodacom. The two operators lodged their complaints