There are a number of prerequisites for the Internet (both service providers and end users) to be fully liberated in any African country. They involve the creation of Internet service provider associations, a proper licensing regime, local peering and international connectivity
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An Internet service provider has been fined R10 000 by a regulatory body for sending spam e-mails to a private individual. “It is particularly worrying … that an ISP itself appears not to appreciate the unacceptable nature of this behaviour,” the Internet
The Internet service provider fined R10 000 by a regulatory body for sending a spam e-mail was unrepentant on Tuesday. “We won’t pay the fine. And we don’t respond well to threats either
The Film and Publication Board (FPB) has agreed in principle to defer the regulation of online press content to the Press Council of South Africa. In a joint statement from the Interactive Advertising Bureau of South Africa (IAB), the South African
South Africa’s adoption of digital terrestrial television (DTT) should be carefully evaluated and perhaps even dumped, says an industry insider. “Fundamentally, we need to be questioning why we’ve adopted this policy in
The Internet Service Providers’ Association wants a more open online landscape in South Africa as government formulates new ICT policy. Government is in the process of formulating a white paper on ICT policy as
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele presented his budget vote speech last week and concealed among the details is a ticking time bomb that’s about to go off on mobile operators, broadcasters and Internet service providers
Minister of telecommunications & postal services Siyabonga Cwele has announced measures the Internet Service Providers’ Association has agreed to to try to suppress xenophobic and other
Internet service providers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude about the wholesale broadband price cuts of up to 63% announced by Telkom on Thursday. Industry body, the Internet
Later today, Amazon will lift the lid on the size of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the behemoth cloud computing platform that seems to run half the planet. Well, at least a third, the other third