Not only will the ban inconvenience thousands of householders who like to answer calls without getting out their baths, it will be one straw too many for non-office businesses such as factories, mines, and warehouses which often use wireless PABX systems to link roving employees to their switchboards.
Government seems to be enforcing the ban with vigour.
The cell-phone networks claim they need the frequencies used by CT1 cordless phones. They also claim CT1 phones interfere with the frequencies used by cell phones. Telecoms regulator Icasa accepted these arguments. Wireless spectrum allocation in SA is run rather like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. SA has only two cell-phone networks serving a relatively small market with more spectrum than their counterparts with far more active users, yet they keep claiming to suffer from congestion.