The supposedly confidential document that Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) councillor William Stucke allegedly “leaked” to an unnamed industry body, prompting a strongly worded statement of condemnation from Telkom on
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Telkom is “gravely concerned” about the alleged leak of information from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) of a supposedly confidential findings-and-recommendations document by the authority’s complaints and compliance committee to an industry body. In a strongly worded media statement
The recently published Electronic Communications Amendment Bill proposes the creation of a new Spectrum Management Agency responsible for all spectrum allocation in SA. Assignment of frequencies will be divided between the new agency and the sector regulator, the Independent Communications of Authority of SA
Cell C’s new standard data tariff plans, which it launched on Wednesday, stack up well next to the tariffs charged by the other operators for identical packages, a comparison drawn up by TechCentral shows. The mobile operator has cut the price of data bundles to 15c/MB in and out of bundle for both prepaid and contract customers
In February, communications minister Dina Pule announced that the digital television switch-on was being moved from April to September. When a country switches from analogue television to digital, there are two important dates. The first is when digital television signals are launched and the second is when the analogue
If anyone needs confirmation that there is a price war going on in SA’s cellphone sector, a quick look at last Sunday’s newspapers will confirm it. Take the Sunday Times, for example. In the first 16 pages of news last week, five pages had huge advertisements from Cell C, Vodacom and MTN
The country’s move to digital TV has been plagued for years by delays and bad decisions. It’s tempting to call it a comedy of errors, except this isn’t funny. The delays could cost SA dearly, particularly as vast chunks of valuable spectrum being used by broadcasters needs to be freed up so
As SA races to beat a fast-approaching deadline of switching off analogue television broadcasts by June 2015, the Independent Communications Authority of SA has published a revised set of draft digital terrestrial television regulations for another round of public consultation in the already long-delayed process
Organised black business group, the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc), has bought a 20% stake in Mobile TV, the television broadcasting start-up founded by Mothobi Mutloatse. Mobile TV, which has applied for a broadcasting licence
The recent piece by BMI-Techknowledge senior consultant Martyn Roetter, in response to a Convergence Partners research report on wholesale open-access wireless networks, itself deserves some reply. It goes without saying that the Convergence Partners’ research report speaks to that company’s own strategy