ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi answers Wapa’s Paul Colmer on the operators’ rural infrastructure exemption application.
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Letting big operators coordinate rural roll-outs would leave many communities with one provider and no alternative.
Industry body ACT used day one of Icasa’s rapid deployment hearings to demand binding municipal deadlines.
Operators say the rapid deployment rules, now in draft form, ignore the municipal wayleave bottleneck.
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A significant set of final regulations from Icasa has opened 900MHz of spectrum to Wi-Fi and private 5G operators.
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Icasa-backed field trials prove dynamic spectrum can unlock affordable broadband across rural South Africa.
Starlink dominates South African headlines, but pricing and market realities raise questions about who it’s really for.
South Africa needs local AI infrastructure. Yet the country is woefully short of the two things modern data centres demand most.