Steve Song had a great week blogging last week, with a great suggestion how to make communications more affordable for the the poorest across Africa. But sadly that story will have to wait, because Steve also posted on how:
“ICASA, it seems, are too busy fulfilling their role as the enforcer of Telkom’s ever more desperate attempts to maintain their stranglehold on the South African telecoms market…Telkom used their influence to ensure that ICASA went and completely shut Dabba down…In shutting them down and removing their wireless access points, they managed to close down access for a skills development centre and an aids orphanage.”
Why does ICASA have the resources to do this but not to prevent price gouging on SMS?
