Communications regulator Icasa will hold public hearings later this week that will determine how scarce radio frequency spectrum is utilised in future. The idea, according to Icasa, is to update the National Radio Frequency Plan to
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The Free Market Foundation has said the #datamustfall movement, which is agitating for lower mobile data prices, has largely gone unchallenged. Yet evidence suggests that South African data prices
Former secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Hamadoun Touré, has been appointed as a nonexecutive director of Telkom with immediate effect. Telkom made the
When most people think or speak about Internet freedom, they are often concerned with the right, for example, to say what you want online without censorship and without being subject to the chilling
The first of February 2016 has been set as the day when analogue television broadcasting will be converted and replaced by digital television. “Cabinet was briefed on progress made on the digital migration programme. It approved the commencement of the dual-illumination
The Internet today is far bigger and more inextricably linked to our daily lives than its creators in the 1970s and 1980s could have imagined. So perhaps it is not surprising that some of the structures put in place decades ago may have failed to keep pace with its
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn wants cabinet to “review and reverse” the broadcasting digital migration policy it adopted in March to “break the legal logjam that is crippling South Africa’s migration to digital broadcasting”. Her remarks
South Africa is part of a small list of countries that have failed to even get out of the starting blocks regarding digital migration, according to an international body. In 2006, South Africa and other countries in Europe, the Middle East and
Despite South Africa’s missing the deadline to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting by Wednesday, 17 June, South Africans would still be able to watch free-to-air television, the communications ministry said. “Minister of communications
More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that