Public benefit organisations to get zero-rated websites
The government will require winners of SA’s recent multibillion-rand broadband spectrum auction to zero-rate all mobile content provided by public benefit organisations, a development to enable people to download education, health and welfare resources on their own phones at no charge.
Zero-rated websites with content that people can download at no cost on their own cellphones are important, because many people cannot access the free internet services provided at schools, libraries and other public institutions, said Harrison. “Cellphones are an incredible way of overcoming the digital divide.
The government raised R14.4bn with the spectrum auction, which saw the lion’s share of the bandwidth awarded to network giants MTN and Vodacom, with smaller allocations to Telkom, Rain, Cell C and Liquid Intelligent Technologies. Details of the social benefit requirements of the new licensees had yet to be provided by the telecommunications regulator, she said.
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