Reasons for this vary from a lack of infrastructure sharing and policy ambiguity to no direct public funding or targeted incentives. Effective infrastructure sharing regulation necessitates a legislative amendment to the ECA…ACT membership is made up of South Africa’s six major telecommunications operators: MTN, Rain, Cell C, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Telkom and Vodacom. Drawing on a report from the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, Batyi argued that infrastructure sharing represents a compelling and well-established solution to these challenges. By consolidating passive and active infrastructure assets, such as towers, data centres and fibre-optic cables, network operators can achieve substantial reductions in deployment and maintenance costs. “Effective infrastructure sharing regulation necessitates a legislative amendment to the ECA to formally incorporate all infrastructure players.