🇿🇦 South Africa 9h ago · Faizel Patel

MTN of empty promises? Less than half of target schools and clinics are actually online

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MTN of empty promises? Less than half of target schools and clinics are actually online
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Parliament has sounded the alarm over a major failure to meet South Africa’s digital connectivity targets, revealing that mobile network operators have connected less than half of the schools, clinics, libraries, and other public institutions they were required to bring online under spectrum licence obligations awarded in 2022.



Lawmakers on Wednesday warned that operators failing to meet their commitments must face consequences, as thousands of public facilities remain cut off from inte

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