A top regulatory expert has lambasted the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) over its planned auction of spectrum for…
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Internet service providers (ISPs) are up in arms over the provisions of the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (Rica),…
Tensions are simmering between Internet service providers and industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), following the conversion…
A flurry of initiatives aimed at achieving a reduction in mobile termination rates will provide interesting sidesdows, but beneath the politics of the moment, the real action remains an intimate dance between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the mobile networks. The initial mobile termination rate, also known as interconnection rate, of 20c/minute was set between Vodacom and MTN on 8 August 1994. This was amended on 28 May 1999, shortly after it was announced by government that a third mobile cellular telecommunications licence would be issued.
Icasa, the communications regulator, is mandated to champion the cause of consumers in the electronic communications market and to protect them from the worst excesses of former monopolists, cellular cartels and miscellaneous fly-by-night operators