Author: Paul Colmer

Connectivity should be driven by market needs rather than manipulated by powerful operators.

Dynamic spectrum sharing offers a compelling solution to meeting growing demand for broadband internet access.

Wi-Fi is poised for significant advances in 2024, writes the Wireless Access Providers’ Association’s Paul Colmer.

The unprecedented damage to three major undersea internet cables has thrust South Africa into a precarious position.

Here’s the thing: we don’t need faster internet. Rather, we need to get existing technologies into the hands of more people.

Icasa has made a large tranche of additional Wi-Fi 6E spectrum available to South African users. This is why it matters.

The perfect storm of a power-crippled 5G roll-out will widen rather than narrow the digital divide in South Africa.

The ongoing power crisis is starting to threaten one of the fundamental drivers of South Africa’s digital economy: Internet access.

South Africans who work from home, study online and try to keep their businesses alive rely on connectivity, without which it all ends. By Paul Colmer.