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BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT MINISTERIAL POLICY DIRECTION
- 12 March 2026
- Communications & Digital Technologies
- SA Legal Academy
Communications & Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi has announced his intention to issue a policy direction requiring the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to ‘identify the most suitable way’ to ensure the ‘rapid deployment’ of high-speed broadband networks and services.
With that in mind, input is sought by 11 April 2026 on proposals that, once finalised and enforced, would require ICASA to:
- ‘consider’ amendments to the 2010 facilities leasing regulations, focusing on:
- ‘access to essential facilities’, and
- ‘the concept of open access’, and
- ‘develop rapid deployment regulations’ among other things:
- curtailing the ‘unnecessary duplication’ of facilities and infrastructure
- where appropriate, facilitating information sharing among licensees by establishing and regularly updating a ‘new and existing infrastructure’ network deployment database, and
- providing for a speedy licensee-land/property owner dispute resolution mechanism.
Please click the link below for more information:
- policy direction proposals
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