It sounds great, but it is bull****. Firstly the indication isn't given what amount of data this would include - and if it is the line rental exclusively then we are hardly in the salivating space because its only half the current pricing. If this service is provided over wireless then frankly Vodacom provides me with LTE at R2 a month but only 1 meg.
ICASA doesn't provide the services, they don't own the network, they aren't in the market. ICASA needs to do their actual job - if they had pushed with facilities leasing enforcement 18 months ago Telkom's response would have driven lower costs and better service.
Moreover if ICASA wants to enter the domain of providing lower costs to communicate their focus needs to be on the under 10Gb per month consumers. Reliable prepaid data products at R50 per gig without expiry is a great point in the digital divide.
More importantly - and as a consumer for whom a 40Mbs uncapped service is