To make new provision for the regulation of telecommunication activities other than broadcasting, and for the control of the radio frequency spectrum; and for that purpose to establish an independent South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and a Universal Service Agency; to repeal the Radio Act, 1952, and the Radio Amendment Acts of 1957, 1962, 1963, 1969 and 1974 and to amend the General Law Amendment Acts of 1957 and 1975.

See Electronic Communications Act 36 of 2005