Ispa To Court Mobile Providers In Expansion Push

The 30-year-old organisation, which was founded to fight Telkom's efforts to expand its monopoly into internet services in the 1990s, has long been a voice of - and lobby group for - the country's many ISPs, small and large.

"In 2025 and beyond, Ispa will apply lessons learnt to the mobile data market on which the majority of South Africans rely for connectivity," it said on Wednesday.

"In particular, Ispa's new board will seek to grow its membership base among MVNOs, which are, in reality, a form of ISP," it said in a statement.

The expansion of its focus to include MVNOs comes after Ispa's recent AGM, at which it announced new board appointments.

Ntokozo Mbonani and Doreen Mokoena will join the Ispa board for the first time and will serve a three-year term. Mbonani is a regulatory adviser at NTT Data previously Dimension Data. Mokoena is founder and CEO of Cybersec Clinique, a specialist information security firm.