Licensing
At the core of the Electronic Communications Act is a regime for the licensing of electronic communications services (ECS), electronic communications network services (ECNS), radio frequency spectrum and equipment (type approval).
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 [...]
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 [...]
Compliance – ICASA complaints against licensees for non-compliance
[29 June 2017] ICASA is considering cancelling the licences held by four untraceable licensees in the event that these licensees do not submit information by 30 July 2017 to satisfy ICASA that they are active [...]
Ownership and Control of Service Licences
[10 June 2017] The deadline for submissions has been extended to 30 June 2017, 16h00. ICASA Act 2000: Extension of the closing date for submissions to the discussion document: Equity ownership by Historically Disadvantaged Groups [...]
ICASA notice on individual licence transfers and historically disadvantaged groups
[26 October 2016] ICASA has published a Notice which effectively deletes regulation 2(1A), reversing the amendment which MTN had taken issue with. Notice repealing Regulation 2(1A) Presumably this represents the end of the MTN application. [...]
Resellers of licensed services
[21 September 2016] We have received the following communication from ICASA regarding licence-exempt resellers of electronic communications services: “In line with compliance with the licensing framework and the related regulations, all entities that operate as [...]