Icasa has issued a second invitation to apply for a potentially lucrative digital mobile television broadcasting licence. This follows its…
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In an extraordinary admission to the telecommunications and broadcasting industries, outgoing Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) chairman Paris Mashile said on Thursday evening that the regulator had “failed” the industry, adding that he would take personal responsibility for its poor performance
“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand without even making a phone call. The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data – in some cases, more than R100 000/GB. And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized
High drama appears to be unfolding at wireless broadband operator iBurst. Company CEO Jannie van Zyl may be on his…
A broadcasting consortium, backed high-profile shareholders, including former Telkom chairman Shirley Lue Arnold, is up in arms over what it…
An organisation known as the Mobile TV Consortium has lodged a complaint against the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa)…
Parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Tuesday announced the names of candidates shortlisted to be interviewed for four positions on the…
Lars Reichelt, CEO of mobile operator Cell C, has criticised the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for not consulting…
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications has agreed on a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed for the Independent Communications Authority…
The decision last week by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to reduce mobile termination rates was not unexpected. What the industry didn’t expect was for the regulator to move as quickly as it has to reduce fixed-line rates