Despite a supreme court of appeal judgment on Tuesday, which set aside a 2015 amendment to South Africa’s broadcasting migration policy, the communications minister, Faith Muthambi, has vowed to press on with the digital terrestrial television migration
E.tv has won the latest battle in the long-running war over digital terrestrial television in South Africa, potentially throwing the long-delayed project off-track once again. The supreme court
A fire has broken out at the head office of communications regulator Icasa. An eyewitness said the fire, in Block A at the Pinmill Farm office park near the Grayston Drive intersection with the M1 highway in Sandton, appears to have started
The SABC is refusing to air the Democratic Alliance’s election advertising, the party alleged on Sunday. “The SABC informed the DA that it has no available slots for political advertisements at this time due to delays in the IEC’s work with respect to the elections
Competition has broken out among telecommunications operators in South Africa as a result of an open-access policy intervention, being the prices which operators pay to access customers on other networks: the call termination rate. Prepaid mobile voice
MTN South Africa has expressed concern about government’s plans for allocating new spectrum for 4G/LTE networks, saying the wrong policy risks undermining one of the few sectors in South Africa that is
South Africa is falling behind in broadband roll-out and access because of delays in allocating access to additional radio frequency spectrum bands to mobile operators, Vodacom warned on Monday. “Due to the country’s dependency on mobile
Public broadcaster the SABC says it will play 90% local music across its 18 radio stations from Thursday, 12 May. The move follows what the state-owned company says has been “extensive” engagements with music representatives
A former councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has lashed out at South Africa’s Sim card registration legislation, Rica, saying it has severely impacted ordinary
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), the body that represents most of South Africa’s ISPs, has again reiterated that it supports the concept of network neutrality. It said in a statement on Friday that there should be “no blocking
