Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has criticised a call for mobile network operators to make their infrastructure available to other companies, saying the process, called open access, has never worked anywhere in the world. The government recently released the integrated information and communication technology white paper policy in which it calls for the implementation of open access to facilitate the entry of new companies in the sector and introduce infrastructure sharing. "There isn’t a case that this (open access) has worked in the world," Joosub said. Speaking at the MyBroadband conference, Joosub said open access on mobile networks was "difficult". However, there were already "different forms of sharing" infrastructure through roaming agreements. Moreover, there were already companies that had opened their fibre networks to other firms. Joosub said it would make sense for an open-access model to be adopted for the new 5G, as that would be the "dawn of a new technology". Telkom chief...
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