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Icasa`s trial by fire

Remember when Telkom asked the regulator whether IP was a basic service, and when it replied nine months later, Telkom took it to court for not having jurisdiction in the matter? Well, here`s the sequel.

The coming bandwidth glut

One way or another, we`ll get the bandwidth we need for the 2010 World Cup. Pity it took national pride, rather than the needs of us commoners, to achieve this.

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Ivo Vegter

Privacy? What privacy?

‘The right to be left alone` is not an ancient right, unlike property law or contract law. It is also not nearly a settled law. Problem is, everyone from the Orwellian paranoiac to the insouciant naïf is probably wrong in their view about the use and abuse of personal information.

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Ivo Vegter

Let the poor have luxury phones

“Let them eat cake,” runs the famous quote. Of course, it`s not that simple. This quote is both wrongly attributed and misunderstood. And therein lies its explanatory power.

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Ivo Vegter