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<br />Not quite. The law states that if Telkom are unwilling / unable to provide a service you have the right to provision it on your own.
A few years ago I was involved with an ISP and due to growth we needed HUGE bandwidth - locally in JHB. Telkom were unable to provide the service so we put up our own LoS wireless connections and lodged an application with SATRA for an exemption.
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Yes, the law does indeed say that, but you're only allowed to do that as long as Telkom's unable/unwilling to supply the service and it is only legal in the case where you're doing it <i>inside your own company</i>. Lotsa companies use LoS networks to connect buildings.
In many cases Telkom are quite willing to provide the service, but at a price that's prohibitive to you. Which, sadly, means you can't go and roll your own and be legal.
The WiFi Internet lot have picked loads of flack due to this. The legislation allows you to provide, wireless in this case, networking on your own premises, but you are not allowed to cross the property boundary with your service. So if I were to get an ADSL line, hook it up to WiFi and let my neighbour share the line, I'm breaking the law.