Rigorous rulings breathe life into paralysed sector
Alison Gillwald, director of the Research ICT Africa (RIA!) network, in her article published in South Africa’s Business Day, reports on the significance and implications of the most recent ruling by the Pretoria High Court denying the Communications Minister’s application for an urgent interdict to prevent South Africa regulatory authority (ICASA) from issuing certain licences.
“While those who would finally be able to enter the market unconstrained have been rubbing their hands in glee at these rulings — and those who thought they had got in through the flawed licensing process and closed the door behind them gnashed their teeth — not much has been said about the significance of Judge Norman Davis’s carefully reasoned judgment reasserting a sound institutional and administrative basis for a sector so long paralysed by indecision.”
Click here to read the full Business Day article by Gillwald.
See also: Appeal plunges telecoms sector back into limbo
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