On 17 February, telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele held his second engagement with the information and communications technology sector on the national integrated ICT
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There is a prevailing view in government – or certainly in the department of telecommunications & postal services – that infrastructure competition in providing broadband is bad. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Communications regulator Icasa has deferred a planned auction of high-demand spectrum indefinitely. In a notice published in the Government Gazette, Icasa said it is deferring the timeframe for the award process “until further notice”. The move is
The National Development Plan proposes three-phased implementation of priorities for the ICT sector. In the short term, the plan calls for an urgent need to review policy to improve access through competition in services; fast-tracking
The national ICT policy white paper does not pass constitutional muster said Leon Louw, executive director of the Free Market Foundation. Louw, speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, slammed the white paper
South Africa has leapfrogged into the information age with extensive wireless communications services and speedy smartphone adoption. PricewaterhouseCoopers recently reported that mobile Internet penetration is expected to exceed 70% in
The Democratic Alliance has released its annual report card of South Africa’s cabinet ministers, giving communications minister Faith Muthambi a failing grade. Her counterpart, Siyabonga Cwele at telecommunications & postal
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has questioned whether the department of telecommunications & postal services has conducted a regulatory impact assessment for its planned wireless open-access network. The controversial proposed
The failure to get access to additional radio frequency spectrum is forcing MTN South Africa to spend more on its network that it otherwise would have had to. MTN South Africa interim chief technology
The department of telecommunications & postal services’s new director-general, Robert Nkuna, is going to have no time to ease gently into his new office in Hatfield, Pretoria. Indeed, he’s going to have to hit the ground running. The former councillor at