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Business Day: 'Big Bang' to cut Telkom monopoly:

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri yesterday unveiled the most dramatic overhaul in SA's telecommunications sector to date, in a "big-bang" liberalisation that will break Telkom's much-criticised stranglehold over the industry.

VoIP and everybody-can-play deregulation can bring only good things. Follow the rejoicing over at Hellkom.

It's still some time before any of this will actually kick in, so I'm inclined to wait and see what happens before getting too excited, but kudos to the government if they actually follow through with all of this.

I can only imagine what sorts of goings-on are happening away from the public eye right now. Telkom were whinging that they weren't given warning or consulted with... can't help but suspect that their own arrogance and greed played a large part in pushing the government to this decision.