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Engineering News reports that the information and communications technology (ICT) sector remains one of the biggest employers and contributors to SA’s mainstream economy, the ‘State of ICT 2019’ report shows.
The fourth iteration of the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) review of the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors, released on Friday, showed total overall employment numbers had increased by 18.8% from 51,993 in 2017 to 61,757 in 2018. Employment within the telecommunications sector increased by 20% to 37,063, while the postal sector employment registered an increase of 21.9% to 19,881 and broadcasting sector employment increased marginally by 0.3% to 4,813. Over a four-year period, the total sector employment increased by 1.9%, with employment in the telecommunications sector having increased by 6.2% and broadcasting marginally lifting 0.2%. The postal service employment rate recorded a decline of 4.3% from 22,671 in 2015. Meanwhile, the revenue reported for the three sectors showed an aggregate growth of 12.2% from R204-billion in 2017 to R229-billion in 2018. Over a four-year period, the combined revenue for the three sectors increased by 6.5%. However, despite this continued “dynamic growth”, the achievements fell short of Icasa’s vision of affordable access to the range of communication services.
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