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INDIVIDUAL ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SERVICE LICENSING: MARKET INQUIRY UPDATE
- 29 June 2026
- Communications & Digital Technologies
- SA Legal Academy
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has gazetted a notice clarifying the implications of an August 2025 ministerial directive on individual electronic communications network service (I-ECS) licensing. The directive required ICASA to conduct an inquiry into the merits or otherwise of licensing individual electronic communications network service providers in the context of competition and universal access imperatives. SA Legal Academy reported on this at the time.
Among other things, the notice:
- confirms that ICASA ‘has commenced with … (the) inquiry, and (that) work is currently underway’, and
- reminds stakeholders that an I-ECS licence ‘does not require a policy direction to be issued by the Minister and may be submitted following (certain procedures)’.
Against that backdrop, the notice outlines the process entailed.
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