In stark contrast to earlier media reports as to what would
constitute "essential services", the Regulations
published in terms of the impending coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown
are far from clear and explicit when it comes to ICT, including
datacentres, fibre optic infrastructure, towers and antennae.
Earlier media reports also appeared to provide clarity around
what would constitute "enabling services", and these
initially included:
- call centres providing life and health; energy, food and water
supply, social, transactional, communications, law and order and
international critical business continuity services;
- professional and artisan services, to the extent that they are
providing support in the COVID-19 response, essential and critical
business continuity services;
