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| Aug 3, 2026 | Telkom’s prepaid growth is running on credit | Telkom’s group CEO, Serame Taukobong
Telkom’s mobile business drove another quarter of top-line growth, but the numbers behind its market-leading prepaid performance show how much of that growth now rests on airtime lending and AI-driven cu... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Openserve hits back in fibre ISP row | Openserve has mounted a defence of its decision to launch its own internet service provider, telling TechCentral that the Telkom-owned wholesale fibre operator is “well below the threshold for dominance” in competition law – and that the bu... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | ‘Construction mafia and spies’: alarm over new Icasa rules | South Africa’s biggest telecommunications operators will square off with Icasa at public hearings in Midrand on Monday and Tuesday, after formal submissions revealed near-unanimous industry criticism of the regulator’s draft rapid deploymen... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Bookmakers to ISPs: stop debating, start blocking | The South African Bookmakers Association (Saba) has waded into the fight over blocking illegal offshore gambling websites, calling for “urgent action, not further debate” — a direct response to the Internet Service Providers’ Association’s ... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Ispa pushes back on plan to block offshore gambling sites | South Africa’s internet industry has pushed back against a government agency’s plan to have illegal offshore gambling sites blocked, warning that website blocking is technically leaky, prone to collateral damage and constitutionally fraught... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | South Africa’s fibre underdogs are beating the giants | A group of smaller fibre network operators (FNOs) have scored ahead of most of South Africa’s established players in the latest perception survey from the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), the officially recognised representat... |
| Jun 17, 2026 | The web belongs to the machines now | Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic online – and South African operators warn that automated traffic, from relentless scrapers to targeted attacks, is straining what local infrastructure can absorb, while a subtler threat from AI hollow... |
| May 13, 2026 | Starlink wait set to drag on as Icasa flags legal hurdle | Communications regulator Icasa has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on broad-based black economic empowerment without an amendment to the Electronic... |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Malatsi runs out of patience with Icasa on BEE reform | Communications minister Solly Malatsi
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has run out of patience with Icasa over why the regulator hasn’t yet responded in detail to his policy direction requiring it to review its licensing rules around b... |
| Apr 20, 2026 | NTT Data claims Africa-first 400Gbit/s peering at Jinx | NTT Data said on Monday it has become the first network operator in Africa to activate 400Gbit/s peering at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx). It described the move as a milestone for South Africa’s internet infrastructure.
The Japa... |
| Apr 17, 2026 | How a connectivity levy became a tax on telecoms | The legal and institutional framework underpinning South Africa’s universal service obligations in telecommunications is no longer fit for purpose, industry leaders have warned.
The levy paid by licence holders increasingly resembles a gene... |
| Nov 28, 2025 | South Africa set for telecoms licensing reset | Communications regulator Icasa this week issued a notice in the Government Gazette signalling its intention to review the process of telecommunications licensing in South Africa.
This follows a policy directive from communications minister ... |
| Nov 21, 2025 | TCS | Dominic Cull on fixing South Africa’s ICT policy bottlenecks | Returning to the TechCentral Show is ICT regulatory expert Dominic Cull, founder of Ellipsis and regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association. Cull recently attended communications minister Solly Malatsi’s policy colloq... |
| Oct 7, 2025 | Starlink says it wants to go big in South Africa | Starlink will comply with South African black economic empowerment legislation, is ready to launch services in the country and will spend R2.5-billion doing so, a company executive said on Tuesday.
Ryan Goodnight, senior director in charge ... |
| Aug 21, 2025 | INX-ZA to supercharge its South African internet exchanges | South Africa’s oldest internet exchange point operator, INX-ZA, has announced a plan to upgrade its infrastructure using high-performance routers from Nokia that offer throughput of up to 400Gbit/s each.
INX-ZA, which forms part of the Inte... |
| Aug 5, 2025 | EU Blocks Big Tech Network Fee. Infrastructure Funding Shifts. | Europe's top regulators rejected calls for Big Tech to pay network fees. This decision impacts global digital infrastructure funding. Telecom operators sought "Fair Share" contributions. Tech giants resisted, citing innovation. Th... |
| Jul 31, 2025 | EU kills ‘Fair Share’ plan favoured by South African operators | The European Commission does not think that imposing a network fee on big technology companies is a viable solution to the debate over who should fund the roll-out of 5G and broadband, a spokesman for the EU executive said on Thursday.
The ... |
| Jul 3, 2025 | Internet industry backs Solly Malatsi’s BEE reform plan | Communications minister Solly Malatsi
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has voiced its support for communications minister Solly Malatsi’s plan to reform empowerment rules in ICT sector licensing.
A draft policy direction b... |
| May 13, 2025 | ISP Cybersmart hit by massive outage | Internet service provider Cybersmart has been hit by a mysterious outage that’s affecting internet access for its users and access to its website.
According to user reports on Downdetector.co.za, Cybersmart subscribers have been unable to a... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Should South Africa introduce age checks for online content? | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body that represents most of South Africa’s ISPs, has called for a debate on the “growing global issue of age verification on the internet”.
“From the days when freedom-of-expr... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Ispa to court mobile providers in expansion push | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body that has historically served as the voice of South Africa’s ISP community, wants to expand its membership base to include mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs).
The 30-... |
| Oct 31, 2024 | ISPs love Octotel, industry survey finds | Octotel has displaced MetroFibre as South Africa’s highest-rated large fibre network operator (FNO), according to a new study by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa).
Every six months, Ispa publishes a ranking of consumer perc... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Cell C's Fight for Survival: Navigating a Competitive Landscape | Cell C, once a promising contender in South Africa's telecommunications arena, finds itself grappling with fierce competition and market dynamics that threaten its very existence. The company's CEO, Jorge Mendes, has laid bare the challenge... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Cell C was ‘handicapped from the start’: Jorge Mendes | Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes
Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has said the mobile operator was “handicapped from the start” by the actions of rivals MTN and Vodacom, which both jacked up call termination rates prior to their new rival’s entry into the m... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Icasa in the dark as Musk claims Starlink awaiting regulatory approval in South Africa | Elon Musk. Image: TED Conference
A claim by SpaceX founder Elon Musk that Starlink is awaiting regulatory approval in South Africa appears to be unfounded.
Communications regulator Icasa told TechCentral on Monday that, despite a post by El... |
| Sep 4, 2024 | ISP body adds to calls for MVNOs to get regulatory support | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has echoed calls by Africa Analysis MD Andre Wills for more regulatory support to be given to South Africa’s growing mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) sector.
Wills said recently that ... |
| May 31, 2024 | Icasa to hold public hearings on call rates | Communications regulator Icasa will hold public hearings into contentious proposed changes to wholesale call termination rates in South Africa on 13 June 2024.
In March, the regulator proposed slashing mobile call termination rates – or the... |
| May 13, 2024 | Cutting wholesale call rates a waste of time: Vodacom | Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said on Monday that planned further cuts to call termination rates will have no real impact on the retail prices paid by consumers.
Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Monday, Joosub urged sector regu... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Icasa too aggressive in cutting fixed termination rates: Ispa | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has raised concerns about what it has described as the “aggressive” proposed cut in fixed-line call termination rates.
These wholesale rates, charged by operators for calls carried between ... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | MTN Group hires Mike Silber in senior regulatory role | Mike Silber
Mike Silber is joining MTN as group executive for regulatory affairs, effective 1 April. The well-known ICT industry veteran and specialist attorney was previously with Liquid Intelligent Technologies, where he was group chief r... |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Fibre operators make switching ISPs difficult: Ispa | The Internet Service Providers Association (Ispa), which representing many of South African’s ISPs, has criticised fibre network operators (FNOs) for making it difficult to switch internet providers.
In a statement on Monday, Ispa said some... |
| Sep 5, 2023 | Fibre network operators, as rated by South Africa’s ISPs | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has conducted a survey in which it asked its members to rate fibre network operators (FNOs) based on prior experiences.
The ISPs polled were asked to rate the FNOs on 10 metrics, including ... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | Vodacom, MTN want internet giants to pay their ‘fair share’ | Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub
South Africa’s biggest mobile operators, Vodacom and MTN, want streamers like Netflix and other big internet companies to pay them for carrying often-huge volumes of data traffic over their networks.
The con... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | Icasa deserves plaudits for helping supercharge Wi-Fi | The author, Dominic Cull
Communications regulator Icasa’s decision to make available an additional 500MHz of bandwidth for Wi-Fi applications has essentially tripled the spectrum available for in-vehicle and in-building Wi-Fi connectivity, ... |
| Mar 6, 2023 | ISP body tells fibre network operators: give consumers choice | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has warned that fibre network operators in South Africa shouldn’t assume customers want to receive free speed upgrades and should give them the option of paying less to keep their line spee... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Icasa criticised for failing to issue new licences | Ispa’s Dominic Cull
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has blasted communications regulator Icasa for failing to provide new network and service licences to industry players, warning this is undermining the ICT sector’s deve... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | Applications Open For ISPA Bursary Programme 2022 | student. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash |
| Mar 28, 2022 | ISPA hopes winning bidders will put spectrum to use ASAP | The Internet Service Providers’ Association of SA (ISPA) has lauded the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) for successfully concluding the country’s first spectrum auction in 17 years.
ISPA is also encouraged by the regulato... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Draft Domain Regulations Damaging To Brand .ZA, Warns ISPA | digital economy Photo by Kaboompics .com from Pexels |
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| May 20, 2021 | ISPA asks govt to remove barriers to comms licensing | South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has called on government and regulator, theIndependent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA), to open up the communications licensing arena.
This, as ISPA believes there is no r... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | COVID-19 Shines Spotlight on Website Take-Downs | Fake News. One photo/Shutterstock |
| Apr 16, 2020 | COVID-19 Shines Spotlight on Website Take-Downs | Fake News. One photo/Shutterstock
SA’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) is advising members that hosting so-called ‘fake news’ websites is prohibited by Clause 11(5) of the Disaster Management Act regulations which makes it an... |
| Sep 7, 2019 | ISPs: Pirate Site Blocking Threatens Freedom of Expression | Online piracy is an international problem for the content industries, one that’s particularly hard to curb.
Pirate site blocking appears to be the preferred countermeasure, which has been rolled out in dozens of countries over the years.
Wh... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | ISPA celebrates 20 years of Internet industry activism | |
| May 5, 2016 | ISPs encourages South Africans to use online take-down notice tool against hate speech | |
| Sep 21, 2015 | Ngcaba reiterates calls for open access | |
| Jul 12, 2011 | ISP body seeks broadband definitions | |
| Nov 24, 2008 | Recording Industry Negotiates With BitTorrent and NZB Sites | On November 6th we reported that RiSA, South Africa’s version of the RIAA, had taken steps to get three sites – BitFarm, Newshost and NinjaCentral shut down on copyright infringement grounds. RiSA sent letters of complaint to the country’s ... |
| Nov 6, 2008 | Recording Industry Takes Down BitTorrent & NZB Sites | According to reports received today, two South African BitTorrent trackers have fallen to anti-piracy action. BitFarm.co.za was the largest tracker in the country with more than 10,000 members but that site has been closed along with a smal... |
