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Mobile network operators must jack up service - ICASA

NEWSWATCH: The communications regulator has issued a blunt warning to South Africa's mobile service providers, reports IOL - get your house in order, especially in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and provide the service you're obliged to provide or suffer the consequences.

1 Jun 2009

Mobile network operators must jack up service - ICASA

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IOL: Cellphone chaos fears… Icasa does not want poor service to embarrass the country come 2010, and mobile service providers have been warned that if they don't jack up their service, they will be penalised - and the penalty could even extend to losing their operating licences.

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