A Telkom communications tower in Pretoria Telkom has told Icasa that the regulator’s black ownership rules for telecoms licensees go beyond what the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act and the ICT sector code envisage, and that the resulting uncertainty has “potentially deterred much-needed investment” in South Africa’s networks. The criticism is in Telkom’s submission…
The authors, Lloyd Matthew and Heinz Vollmer Communications regulator Icasa should discourage or rule out mobile operators and other private companies storing, sharing or cross-referencing customers’ fingerprints, and to turn the prints that fraudsters leave behind at failed Sim swaps into evidence for the police. Just one breach of a private fingerprint database would cause…
Africa can shape implementation rules at the first Conference of the Parties in January, but only if delegations prepare and coordinate. The Agreement under the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) sets rules for…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has asked the sector regulator, Icasa, to rewrite South Africa’s 16-year-old rules on how operators share infrastructure and has set out principles for long-delayed regulations meant to speed up the building of broadband networks. The policy direction, signed on 19 October and published in the Government Gazette on Tuesday, asks Icasa…
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana National treasury and the Reserve Bank will rewrite their draft rules on moving crypto assets across South Africa’s borders after receiving “thousands of comments” on the proposals, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said on Wednesday. “It is clear that we need to take a different approach to these amendments,” Godongwana told parliament…
Three Saudi citizens were killed and several other people “of different nationalities” were wounded in attacks targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia Airlines aircraft, the kingdom’s civil aviation authority said Friday. Thursday’s attack was the deadliest in Saudi Arabia since the kingdom and allied forces in neighboring Yemen launched a major military…
A severely disabled 1-year-old child has been euthanized by doctors in the Netherlands, a government review board has confirmed. It is the first case reported by authorities that was guided by new rules allowing for the termination of life of seriously ill children between the ages of 1 and 12 in the European nation. The…
GoTyme Bank has confirmed it has signed up to Catastrophe, the industry coalition campaigning against draft rules that would bar South African companies from making cross-border payments in cryptocurrency, saying the country’s regulatory framework should apply “consistent standards to equivalent financial activities, regardless of the technology used”. “This is not a position on whether crypto…
The City of Cape Town has begun drafting refined development guidelines for large-scale data centre applications, marking its first formal acknowledgment that current municipal approval frameworks require systemic reform. The policy shift arrives alongside confirmation that a controversial rezoning approval granted in July for a hyperscale data centre precinct at King Air Industria has been…
The City of Cape Town is drafting new development guidelines for large data centre applications, its first public acknowledgement that the approvals process needs changing, and has confirmed that the rezoning it granted in July for a hyperscale precinct at King Air Industria is suspended and cannot be acted on. Separately, Equinix, the US operator…
