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The licensing process marks regulatory maturity, not a threat to our digital future<\/em><\/p>\n The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) recently published Starlink’s telecommunications licence application for public comment in Government Gazette No 8795, a procedural milestone that deserves recognition rather than alarm. This moment represents Namibia’s regulatory system working exactly as designed: transparent, consultative, and grounded in law.<\/p>\n Yet a peculiar anxiety has emerged in some…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The licensing process marks regulatory maturity, not a threat to our digital future The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) recently published Starlink’s telecommunications licence application for public comment in Government Gazette No 8795, a procedural milestone that deserves recognition rather than alarm. This moment represents Namibia’s regulatory system working exactly as designed: transparent, consultative, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,23408,4706,724,6953,257,14038,943,254,49400],"class_list":["post-217022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chapter","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-panic","tag-progress","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlinks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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