Telkom has no immediate plans to cut the cost of calls to mobile phones, despite a sharp fall in the rate mobile operators are permitted to charge the fixed-line operator to terminate calls originating on its network on 1 March. Mobile termination rates were cut from
With the cut in termination rates on Thursday, Neotel and MTN Business were first out of the blocks with retail tariff reductions. Termination rates are the wholesale rates operators charge each other to field calls over their networks. As of Thursday, the rate for calls to and between mobile networks falls from
Broadcasting regulator Icasa is expected to furnish its reasons within the next week for barring TopTV from launching adult channels on its satellite pay-TV platform. However it tries to justify the decision, Icasa deserves to be challenged all the way to the constitutional court
Telkom should be structurally separated into two businesses, wholesale and retail, to facilitate greater competition in SA’s telecommunications industry, says new Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow communications minister Marian Shinn. Speaking to TechCentral in her first wide-ranging media interview
TopTV chairman and acting CEO Eddie Mbalo is “shocked” that the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants to introduce new pay-TV operators just a few years after licensing a range of new players, one of which collapsed. “I’m shocked that after having awarded these new licences
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants to license new pay-TV operators to compete with incumbent MultiChoice, which owns DStv, and recent entrant On Digital Media, with TopTV, despite little interest in launching commercial services
Companies that provide voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony services are going to come under significant margin pressure after March and this could lead to a wave of consolidation in the sector, with some smaller players being driven out of business. This is the bleak view of Ryan Miles
At public hearings in Johannesburg on Thursday, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) said it would consider all submissions by interested parties in creating an official definition of what constitutes an “underserviced area” for both Internet access and access to public
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is holding public hearings on Thursday to allow telecommunications operators to present their definitions of an “underserviced area”. The definitions are important because, under Icasa’s guidelines for future spectrum allocation
Telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), will conclude a study in the next 12 months that it says will determine the effect on retail prices of a decline in the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks. The fees
