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Communications regulator Icasa has not thought through its proposed new call termination rate regulations. If they’re implemented without significant changes, they will harm the industry and lead to higher prices for consumers. That’s the view of Switch Telecom CEO Greg Massel, who spoke to TechCentral in a podcast interview on Monday (listen to the discussion below). “The single biggest issue is that, either intentionally or unintentionally, they seem to steal from the poor and give to the rich,” he said. [...]

According to Statistics SA, the South African economy grew by 1.3% in 2017. It seems businesses across various industries are struggling in the current economy. Running a business can be expensive.  We know many businesses are facing a hard time. There are many rabbit holes where money can disappear into, this is especially true when it comes to your PBX. A Switchboard or Private Branch Exchange (PBX) service should enhance your business but can easily suck up money if not [...]

On 16 December 2017, President Zuma announced that the government would subsidise free higher education for poor and working-class students. President Zuma said, “Having amended the definition of poor and working-class students. The government will now introduce fully subsidised free higher education and training for poor and working-class South African undergraduate students. Starting in 2018 with students in their first year of study at our public universities." According to the President, poor and working-class students are “students currently enrolled at [...]

On 24 November 2017, ICASA (the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) released new draft regulations on Number Portability. These proposed regulations aim to achieve effective and efficient functionality when porting numbers from one provider to the next; effective access and routing of communication regardless of the number being ported, and the licensees having to address cost allocation and cost recovery when porting numbers. Number Portability is the transfer of geographic numbers, non-geographic numbers (with prefixes 086, 080 and 087) [...]