Telecoms regulatory expert Dominic Cull has warned that Low-Earth Orbit satellite systems like Starlink could disintermediate South Africa’s mobile network operators.
BMIT’s latest SA Wholesale Telecoms Report projects healthy revenue growth in South Africa’s wholesale telecommunications sector, with fibre set to overtake mobile facilities in the next five years.
Telkom’s rapid fixed-line subscriber decline in recent years has coincided with the significant uptake of voice-over-Internet protocol services among South African businesses.
