Policy, rights, and platform governance
Wits students can now use eduroam at Mall of Africa. The free university Wi-Fi already works at ACSA airports and city libraries. How it works, who's in.
ICASA's draft rules would need a Home Affairs fingerprint or face check for every SIM and SIM swap, and cap people at five numbers. Comments by 9 December.
CCMA rules effective 23 October allow WhatsApp and SMS hearing notices and recognise electronic filings. Employers must monitor messages and protect data.
Centurion-based Q-KON is expanding OneWeb services in Namibia and Angola through local partners, offering an enterprise route to satellite broadband.
ICASA's chair says ISPs and network operators short of 30% HDG ownership at their 2028 licence renewal must sell a stake or shut. The key dates.
The Reserve Bank is consulting on a Synthetic Financial Centre that would let approved institutions manage qualifying foreign portfolios from South Africa.
MTN and Huawei say a microwave interference-cancellation trial worked on a commercial network, but give no measured capacity gain or rollout schedule.
TPC Africa Mobile, a prepaid MVNO on MTN's network, launched on 24 October with bundles from R1.50, a wallet and bill payments. Data prices are not out.
Malatsi's direction tells Icasa to rewrite 2010 facilities-leasing rules, list essential facilities and map networks. Here's what is dated and what isn't.
Starlink is restricting South Africans who roam at home, asking for passport-based travel registration while SpaceX still has no local licence.
A Q3 2026 network test recorded 1,021Mbps on Vodacom 5G in Sebokeng. The peak is striking, but it does not describe typical township coverage.
ICASA says zero-rating obligations start in January 2027. Parliament reports 51 approvals from 69 applications, but the public rollout detail remains thin.