Starlink has 10 000 satellites and a six-year head-start, yet rival Amazon Leo may beat it to market in South Africa.
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Industry body ACT used day one of Icasa’s rapid deployment hearings to demand binding municipal deadlines.
Revolving-door ministers and ad hoc political interventions left the State IT Agency unable to function.
Operators say the rapid deployment rules, now in draft form, ignore the municipal wayleave bottleneck.
Solly Malatsi insists nobody influenced him into pursuing a policy his party, the DA, had already promised.
An investigation has found R2-billion in irregular spending and a quarter of Sita tenders never awarded.
The regulator says it cannot issue new network licences for now, pointing operators towards buying existing ones.
Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
New directors have been appointed to the board of an entity treasury won’t fund and that nearly slid into liquidation.
Enforced rigorously, age verification to protect children from harms online could push us towards a less free internet.