Digital colonialism under the Western model of technology
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the root of current problems like privacy and monopoly power…
Universal Service Obligations for spectrum to be auctioned
ICASA has published the Universal Service Obligations fo the successful bidders in the upcoming spectrum auction in the Government Gazette of 10 December 2021. According to the Overview (1.7) government…
The Competition Commission Data Services Market Inquiry
The 2019 Competition Commission Data Services Market Inquiry exposed the profiteering of South Africa's mobile operators.
R2K’s Alternatives to Privatised Telecommunication
In South Africa, as in much of the rest of the world, telecommunication services are concentrated in a handful of monopolistic private companies that reap massive profits at the expense…
R2K’s Activist Guide to the Right2Communicate
This Activist Guide covers the following: The history of the right to communicate in South Africa: why does the communications landscape look the way it does?The current state of the right to…
R2K’s Lived Cost of Communication
What is the real cost of communications for ordinary people? R2K, in collaboration with the LINK Centre at Wits, has conducted a study on the lived cost of communications in…