Just this month, three telecom giants in South Africa, MTN, Vodacom and Telkom have sued the industry regulator, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) seeking to prevent it from taking back free temporary emergency spectrum given to selected telcos at a fee during the peak of Covid-19. ICASA did inform the telcos that the temporary spectrum was purely for the purposes of managing the heightened data consumption due to Covid-19-driven upsurge in digital/virtual activity. They therefore made it clear the spectrum will be taken back November 30, 2021 after extending the deadline several times. But the affected telcos insist that taking it back now will harm the industry and the entire country, because the data consumption burden caused by Covid-19 is still persistent. In Ghana, a similar gesture was extended to MTN and Vodafone in April last year, on the orders of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. They were to use the free spectrum for three months, ending...