Industry lobby group ACT has urged Icasa to practice “regulatory forbearance” to ease the impact of load shedding.
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It is essential to recognise how pivotal the telecoms sector is to South Africa’s present and future.
The Association for Comms & Technology has warned government against rushing operators into switching off legacy networks.
The telecommunications industry is concerned that a request that it receive diesel rebates has been ignored.
South Africa’s telecommunications industry has called for urgent action by government and regulators to address the country’s worsening power situation.
The top industry executive has warned that extreme load shedding is having a severe impact the telecommunications sector and on consumers.
Major operators have created a new, non-profit association to look after their interests and work with government and regulators.
MultiChoice “cannot speak for the poor” and “has no mandate from them”. It also can’t speak for consumers, from whom it makes “super profits”. That’s the latest broadside directed against MultiChoice by the ministry of communications as the war of words between the Naspers-owned pay-television operator and communications minister
Communications minister Yunus Carrim has accused MultiChoice and its partners of trotting out the “same old, tired issues” over digital terrestrial television and labelled the pay-television broadcaster a bullying “monopoly”. He was responding to full-page Sunday newspaper advertisements in which MultiChoice
JSE-listed Africa Cellular Towers (ACT) has been placed into provisional liquidation after a major unnamed creditor was granted an order for the liquidation on Friday, 1 June. In a statement issued through the JSE’s Sens news service, ACT told shareholders on Monday that the company had been placed into