Browsing: Icasa

Kagiso Media, the fast-growing media group that has radio and Internet assets and which is bidding for a pay-television licence, has launched its first TV venture, a free-to-air channel called Glow TV on the OpenView HD satellite bouquet. OpenView HD is a new free-to-air direct

Radio Pretoria lost a legal battle with broadcasting regulator Icasa in the high court in Pretoria on Thursday. Judge Neil Tuchten dismissed the radio station’s application to be allowed to continue transmitting to its rural relay stations in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga on technical grounds

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is giving telecommunications operators more time to comment on draft call termination rate regulations, announced 10 days ago, that sent the share prices of MTN and Vodacom plunging and Telkom surging

This may go down as the week that changed everything in South Africa’s telecommunications industry, the one that signalled the start of the end of the duopoly grip held by Vodacom and MTN. It started nine days ago when sector regulator, the Independent Communications

TalkCentral hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson dive into the big technology stories of the past week — and there’s plenty of ground to cover. In the show, we talk about telecommunications regulator Icasa’s big announcement on mobile termination rates, Cell C’s decision

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has warned companies that they will be reported to the authority’s complaints and compliance committee if they are found to be leasing telecommunications licences that have been issued to them

Mobile termination rates, the fees South Africa’s operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks, have to come down, but the scale of the drop and the level of “asymmetry” favouring smaller operators proposed by telecommunications regulator Icasa are too substantial

South Africa has to choose between having many telecommunications operators or encouraging investment from existing players to drive down prices and increase adoption. That’s according to MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who supports the latter approach. Bulbulia made the comments at a consumer

Telkom on Tuesday told shareholders that it expects its headline and basic earnings per share to be at least 20% higher in the six-month period ended 30 September 2013 compared to the same period a year ago. However, the telecommunications operator noted that the

Vodacom has taken strong exception to a move by telecommunications regulator Icasa to draft a wholesale call rates regime that favours its rival Cell C and more recent market entrant Telkom Mobile. Vodacom says it supports the proposed cuts to termination rates