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Rights of licensees to deploy electronic communications networks
[16 August 2017] The judgement of the High Court in the Western Cape in the matter of Telkom v Dennegeur Home Owners' Association & Vodacom - delivered on 26 July 2017 - is relevant to the rights of licensees to [...]
ICASA Council – Minutes of Council meetings
[16 August 2017] We would love to update this post more frequently but ICASA remains non-compliant with its founding legislation. __ [16 May 2017] No further records or minutes have been published since the below post... Section 11A of the [...]
ICASA’s Cost to Communicate Programme
[16 August 2017] ICASA presented on its cost to communicate program to a Select Committee on Communications and Public Enterprises on 2 August 2017. ICASA Presentation Cost to Communicate 2 August 2017 Narrative to ICASA Cost to Communicate Presentation 2 [...]
ICASA Inquiry to identify priority markets in the electronic communications sector
[5 August 2017] ICASA has published its responses to the questions of clarity raised by stakeholders in line with its timelines, together with a list of sources which it had consulted in adopting the approach that it has. Questions of [...]
End-user and Subscriber Service Charter
[8 August 2017] ICASA has published draft amendments to the End-user and Subscriber Service Charter Regulations 2016. These amendments are generally pro-consumer and seek to make the following changes to current practices: Voice and SMS services: Notifications of service depletion [...]
ICASA review of Number Portability Regulations
[26 July 2017] ICASA has published a media release on the report, which can be found at the link below: Media Release ___ [1 July 2017] ICASA has published the findings of its review of the number portability regulatory regime. [...]
The Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill
[26 July 2017] The deadline for submissions in the Bill has been extended to 10 August 2017. __ [4 July 2017] The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services has issued an invitation to stakeholders and interested persons to submit [...]
National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper
[19 July 2017] The CSIR hosted an initial “Capacity Determination Workshop” on 10 July 2017. This featured a CSIR presentation on the high level description of requirements from operators for modelling WOAN capacity and spectrum as well as presentations from [...]
Internet for All Initiative
[14 July 2017] The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services has published a concept document which provides an overview of the South Africa Internet for All programme. The initiative sees government partner with the World Economic Forum and their global [...]
ITU Questionnaires
[10 July 2017] ICASA has released the International Telecommunications Union’s Long Questionnaire on telecommunications statistics / ICT indicators for 2017. The Long Questionnaire covers the period from January 2016 to December 2016 and consists of 57 indicators. Licensees are required to submit [...]
