BN Edge | Piet le Roux: ICASA, Starlink and the true cost of BEE

Let's say portfolio of other cases on a good business environment that's already launched and will be coming. Your critics will be saying, but hang on a minute, is Elon Musk behind all of this? Because he's a big beneficiary, were it to happen with Starlink? Well, I hope so. I hope that he benefits. I hope that Starlink benefits. If Starlink benefits, lots of people in South Africa will benefit. I'm just making up a number here, but imagine a regulatory environment was.

So good, that was so welcoming that all internet costs half the price in South Africa with double the amount of access. That would have been great. So, yeah, it would be the same if we removed a lot of BE from the mining sector. You know, we have a gutted mining sector in South Africa. And yes, if we rectify that, mining owners would benefit a lot, but the benefit, the most of the benefit, would accrue elsewhere in society. So, no, Saaklicha does this because this is, we think it's a good case. And we,

Actually, I think as much as Starlink hopefully can benefit from this, I hope that actually, in the end, many other international companies benefit from that, and ultimately, also South African operators who are really at risk of the next few years of ICASA stymying them, refusing to relicense them, refusing new license issuance. So, the benefit of this, I think, goes much wider than Starlink. We do this because we think it's a good case, fits our portfolio of cases.