Regulatory boss quits Telkom
Telkom’s general executive for regulatory affairs has resigned. Staff were informed on Monday that Andrew Barendse was leaving the telecommunications group. Barendse’s resignation comes just weeks...
View ArticleCell C handed call rates victory
Telecommunications regulator Icasa has handed a huge victory to smaller operators, including Cell C, by proposing aggressive “asymmetry”, or wholesale price benefits, in termination rates in a move...
View ArticleOperators get more time
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...
View ArticleIcasa eyes new spectrum bands
Communications regulator Icasa is considering ways of opening up extremely high frequency (EHF) radio spectrum bands above 30GHz, one of its councillors, William Stucke, said at the Future Wireless...
View ArticleWorries as Icasa set to lose top talent
Communications regulator Icasa looks set to lose four of its councillors in the next few months. William Currie and Joseph Lebooa are set to leave when their contracts come to an end on the 30...
View ArticleTelkom wants first bite at digital dividend
Telkom wants preferential access to spectrum in the digital dividend bands currently occupied by television broadcasters because historically it has not had access to sub-1GHz spectrum, while its...
View ArticleIcasa councillors ‘told to go’
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has ordered that four councillors at communications regulator Icasa whose terms are ending leave the institution and not stay on for a 45-day handover period,...
View ArticleIcasa plays down councillors’ exit impact
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...
View ArticleMuthambi acted unlawfully on Icasa: DA
Democratic Alliance spokesman on communications Gavin Davis says the party believes communications minister Faith Muthambi acted unlawfully when she sent letters to four councillors at the Independent...
View ArticleIcasa councillors mull legal action: report
Departing councillors at communications regulator Icasa, asked to step aside before completing a customary 45 working day handover period, may be mulling legal action against communications minister...
View ArticleSA could be told to cut TV signals
South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project is in a dire state and if the country fails to switch off its analogue signals after the mid-June 2015 cut-off date, it may be obliged to...
View ArticleMuthambi’s first year as minister assessed
On 20 May, communications minister Faith Muthambi will deliver her second budget vote speech. Those expecting her to roll over and play dead in the light of the controversy that has dogged her
View ArticleThe challenge of connecting SA’s rural poor
Carlos Rey-Moreno, senior researcher at the University of the Western Cape, is involved in a fascinating project to extend affordable connectivity - voice and data - to the remote and desperately poor
View ArticleProgress in rapid deployment policy
Real progress appears to be at hand, finally, in the development by government of a rapid deployment policy for electronic communications infrastructure, which should make it easier and quicker for...
View ArticlePast, present and future of SA telecoms
There are a number of prerequisites for the Internet (both service providers and end users) to be fully liberated in any African country. They involve the creation of Internet service provider...
View ArticleEx-Icasa councillor slams Rica legislation
A former councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has lashed out at South Africa’s Sim card registration legislation, Rica, saying it has severely impacted ordinary
View ArticleVodacom loses Wi-Fi calling complaint
Vodacom and Cell C have been at each other’s throats again in front of the Advertising Standards Authority, this time over a claim by Cell C that it was the first to introduce Wi-Fi calling in South...
View ArticlePodcast | Digital terrestrial television: the state of play in SA
This podcast is a recording of a presentation and panel discussion facilitated by TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod and hosted by the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers on the state
View ArticleRegulator risks messing up .za domain space, ISPs warn
The Internet Service Providers’ Association has warned that draft regulations dealing with .za domains could damage the popular .za brand.
View ArticleZadna defends controversial draft rules on .za domains
The .ZA Domain Name Authority has defended draft regulations that ISPs last week warned would undermine the popularity of the .za domain space.
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