Government’s radical plan to shake up the way radio frequency spectrum is allocated in South Africa has been met with universal derision by ICT analysts and experts, who say it takes huge and unnecessary risks that could cause
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Introducing mandatory open-access wireless networks as part of government policy, as South Africa is planning to do, may come at the expense of investment and innovation, according to new report. Research ICT Africa said in a new policy brief that
Are South Africans really paying too much for mobile data? Tariffic, a South African company that helps companies and individuals save on their cellphone bills, has set out to determine exactly that by looking at the price
Telkom has signalled it’s ready for a serious fight with its bigger rivals, this week taking the wraps off aggressively priced, 4G/LTE data-led mobile packages for both prepaid and contract customers that look set to have its bigger rivals
Drastic mobile tariff price cuts by telecoms company Telkom could be ignored by the country’s biggest networks MTN and Vodacom, says an expert. Telkom on Thursday announced its “FreeMe” contract
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
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
Government has expressed its desire to forsake revenue over broadband access as it races to meet its self-imposed goal of universal Internet by 2020.Mobile operators are awaiting policy direction on the availability of 800MHz spectrum, which
The value offered to post-paid customers from MTN and Vodacom has decreased in the past 12 months, while smaller rival Cell C and mobile virtual network operator me&you mobile are
Internet access in the Western Cape is higher than the national average. This is according to a study dubbed the “Western Cape Digital Readiness Assessment 2015”, which was commissioned