Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube has downplayed the impact of a decision by communications minister Faith Muthambi to ask four of the communications regulator’s councillors to leave before they have served a customary handover period of 45 days. However, in a statement, Mncube does not address the
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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has failed to communicate its council decisions on its website as required by the legislation that governs it, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. The Icasa Amendment Act states that
StarSat, the pay-television platform known until recently as TopTV, is facing another potential hurdle over its three subscription-based pornographic channels. An organisation calling itself Cause for Justice has filed papers at the high court in Pretoria asking for a review of a decision by the Independent
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
South Africa’s communications regulator is failing to perform and allowing mobile service companies to “rip off” the poor, MPs said on Wednesday. MPs in the labour & public enterprises select committee were briefed by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on the high cost of broadband and
The under-resourced and often ineffective Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has a reputation for lacking teeth when it comes to enforcing order in the telecommunications sector it regulates. For example, there’s still no clear outcome in the case of the alleged unlawful use by wireless Internet
Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), which owns broadband company iBurst, owes the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) a “substantial” amount of money and its attitude towards settling its dues “palpably demonstrates a recalcitrant operator” that “refuses to meet its statutory
A memorandum penned by Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) chairman Stephen Mncube, instructing Icasa councillors to back off on acting against iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), provoked an angry response from two councillors, internal correspondence in
Telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), has been dragged to court for not disclosing the status of a service provider accused of operating without a licence. Having been sent
How to get the country’s telecommunications, broadcasting and postal regulator functioning efficiently is the subject of major debate, at the heart of which is the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) Amendment Bill. This, the latest draft of legislation