SWAZILAND

Swaziland's answers to the ITU's 2002 questionaire on frequency management indicates that the Swaziland Posts and Telecomms Corporation (SPTC) shares responsibility for national frequency management with the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Communication. There wasn't yet a separate regulatory agency, although there were said to be plans to create a one. A preparatory step in that direction is the formation of an Office of Regulatory, Policy and International Affairs. After a separate regulator is created, the National Radio Regulations will be updated and made public. There was also said to be no national frequency allocations table - instead they follow the SADC channel plan.
All these details are confirmed by ACREG's (newer) regulatory database for Swaziland. That says a regulatory agency has still not been created; a draft telecommunications law is "awaiting adoption." Meanwhile the sector is governed by the SPTC Act of 1983. And there are no WiFi regulations.
"ICT policy ready" The Swazi Observer, Mbabane, 7 August 2006: "...the National Information Communications Technology (ICT) Policy has since been finalised and is ready for submission to cabinet. This was revealed by Acting Minister of Tourism, Communications and Environment, Absalom Dlamini..."

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