Browsing: Solly Malatsi

The Post Office has received an unqualified audit opinion for the first time in six years but it’s survival remains in doubt.

Government will provide guidelines and leave individual sectors to write their own artificial intelligence strategies.

Government, Eskom and Standard Bank on what scaling AI across industries actually requires.

Spectrum that regulator Icasa set aside for the long-dead wholesale open-access network remains unassigned.

Icasa has identified 700MHz of prime mid-band spectrum for mobile, though none has been assigned yet.

Starlink has 10 000 satellites and a six-year head-start, yet rival Amazon Leo may beat it to market in South Africa.

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.