Icasa wants your fingerprint before you can get a Sim card

by nouman | Oct 29, 2026 | Association of Comms and Technology, Ferdi Moolman, home affairs, Icasa, Information Regulator, Mothibi Ramusi, MTN, News, Sections, Telecoms

Icasa wants mobile operators to check their subscribers’ fingerprints or faces against home affairs records.

South Africa’s AI policy team is racing a 30 November deadline

by nouman | Oct 29, 2026 | Benjamin Rosman, Jeanette Morwane, News, Policy and regulation, Sections, Solly Malatsi

South Africa’s redrafted AI policy goes to cabinet by March 2027, months later than first promised.

A Finnish supercomputer could help close South Africa’s AI computing gap

by nouman | Oct 29, 2026 | AI and machine learning, CSIR, Daan du Toit, Damien Le Carpentier, Jabu Mtsweni, National Research Foundation, News, Pekka Metso, Sections

Finland has offered to help South African researchers reach Lumi, one of Europe’s fastest supercomputers.

GoTyme dares rival banks to make instant payments free

by nouman | Oct 29, 2026 | Cheslyn Jacobs, Fintech and payments, GOTyme Bank, News, PayInc, Sanlam, Sections, TymeBank

GoTyme Bank says its customers now originate about a quarter of PayShap payments to cellphone numbers.

Put the Woan’s spectrum in orbit, says Vodacom

by nouman | Oct 29, 2026 | AST SpaceMobile, Dejan Kastelic, Icasa, News, Satellite communications, Sections, Solly Malatsi, SpaceX, Starlink, Vodacom, Woan

Vodacom wants Icasa to assign the defunct Woan spectrum to operators for satellite-to-phone services.