South Africa isn’t the only country in Southern Africa where Elon Musk is facing pushback over the licensing of Starlink.
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Elon Musk has drawn an angry response for claiming Starlink is “not allowed to operate in South Africa because I’m not black”.
The high court in Pretoria has dismissed Vodacom’s application for an urgent interdict in its spectrum pooling battle.
Cell C has handed big chunks of its licensed radio frequency spectrum back to communications regulator Icasa.
OnDigital Media, parent of StarSat, is no more. Fifteen years after being licensed, the company has been placed into liquidation.
Blue Label Telecoms has increased its economic interest in Cell C by another 10 percentage points.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has nominated four candidates for appointment to the council of Icasa.
South Africa’s telecommunications giants face off in the high court in Pretoria on Thursday and Friday.
After failing to show up on Wednesday, SpaceX has now formally “withdrawn its interest” in presenting to the regulator.
Starlink is already “sold out” in many African cities, including Nairobi, Lusaka and Harare.