ICASA emphasises that the new rules aim to protect consumers as bill shock complaints continue. (Image source: iStock) The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has defended its data transfer regulations, saying they aim to prevent bill shock and ensure fair data usage. ICASA yesterday briefed Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies…
ICASA regulations on data expiry seek to help reduce the cost to communicate in SA. Communications minister Solly Malatsi has described the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA’s) regulatory moves on mobile data expiry as a useful intervention to bring down the cost to communicate. However, he believes the resultant legal deliberations are likely…
MTN and Vodacom have launched separate legal challenges against communications regulator Icasa over new consumer protection rules – including mandatory rollover of unused data bundles – that are due to come into force in January 2027. News24 first reported that MTN served court papers on 22 July asking for the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter…
The World Bank has cautioned that the expiration of the United States’ African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in late 2025 poses a serious threat to African exports, warning that the loss of preferential access to the U.S. market could undermine economic growth in several Sub-Saharan African countries at a time when the region’s recovery…
The expiry of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) duty-free access window presents an immediate challenge to Nigeria and Africa, particularly for African apparel exporters, a report by BMI, a Fitch Solutions Company, has said. Now that AGOA preferences have lapsed in September 2025, several countries will be forced onto Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) tariff…
CoreWeave‘s stock dropped 18% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave’s results came as…
