Cost of data is an emotive subject. This is a critically important week for all users. Media and consumers should take note. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa is attempting to interfere with data bundles and
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Civil society groups Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition have blasted government’s plan to create a wholesale open-access network, or Woan, saying in a submission to the department of telecommunications
The buffering wheel on mobile-device screens could be the most-watched entertainment if pending legislation cripples South Africa’s dynamic cellphone sector. Should the monopoly wireless network that is the
South Africa’s slow Internet connections and high data costs have been criticised by most industry participants — including government, large companies and consumers. The ICT policy white paper, published
There may be a way to resolve the spectrum impasse in South Africa, in which the big operators, MTN and Vodacom, are squaring off against government over its plans to create a wholesale open-access network and
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his maiden state-of-the-nation address, said government will soon establish a “digital industrial revolution commission” to ensure South Africa “is in a position to seize the opportunities and
Government’s Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is unconstitutional, will create a new infrastructure monopoly in the form of a proposed wholesale open-access network and will ultimately be detrimental
Telkom wants a drastically different approach to future spectrum allocation than its bigger rivals, MTN and Vodacom, arguing in a submission to government that all unassigned high-demand spectrum
The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill must be withdrawn because, among other things, government’s plan to create a single wireless open-access network is a “high-risk intervention that South Africa cannot
Government’s radical Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce into law many aspects of the controversial national integrated ICT policy white paper, will undermine the industry and lead to poor and inadequate