Icasa has dropped a bombshell on the telecommunications industry. The industry regulator reckons Internet service providers and other telecommunications licensees are entitled — right now — to access Telkom’s local loop
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Telkom says the deadline for unbundling the local loop, the “last mile” of copper cables that connects consumers to its network, is “unrealistic”. Telkom’s chief of corporate governance, Ouma Rasethaba
Telecommunications operators say the Universal Service Fund should be used exclusively for telecommunications services in underserviced areas and should not be tapped by broadcasters for digital set-top box
Unbundling the local loop, the “last mile” of copper cables that connect consumers to Telkom’s telephone exchanges, will not promote increased access to fixed-line broadband services
Neotel and Vodacom have called on their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to scrap the universal service obligations they agreed to when they were licensed. Instead, they want
About 50 companies licensed at value-added network service (Vans) providers of a total, out of a total of more than 500, must still furnish information to have their new telecommunications licences processed.
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) told Siphiwe Nyanda, the former communications minister, in no uncertain terms, that it does not consider it viable to abolish licence fees and fund the debt-plagued SABC using personal income tax.
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has released a unflattering report showing that mobile operators’ networks performed below par at stadiums during the 2010 soccer World Cup. Icasa released its report this week
Candice Jones is back from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, Duncan McLeod is back from the dizzying heights of the Sentech Tower in Brixton, and communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda is in the political wilderness. Yes, it’s been another crazy news week here at TechCentral, and we’re back with another episode of TalkCentral
Themba Dlamini, deputy director-general of the department of science & technology, has been appointed as the new CEO of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube made the announcement on Friday morning at the authority’s press conference on call termination rates.