ICASA eyeing international ADSL price model

Another public hearing!!??? too be followed by more half @rsed draft regs .....

Going in circles is this issue .....

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww F.... cant these people just do something other than "Talk" ICASA is more the INCOMPETENT COMMUNICATIONS authority!

Me wonders what the Telkom share price will be doing in the next few months...

“Generally, what Telkom is charging for ADSL is a bit high. ICASA will always strive for consumer protection and to do what's best for the end-user.”

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A bit high ... I really want some of the stuff that the source is smoking.

“He said implementation would begin within eight weeks of his announcement. It's been about three months now and nothing has happened. I'm a bit hesitant to believe what the Department of Communications has to say,” Muller comments.

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Now that's what I call diplomacy.

ICASA is a lame duck that, if the truth be known, ought to be euthanized.

More going round in circles.

All together now, sing "Round and round goes the [censored] great wheel..."

Ag nooit man, only in South Africa, makes you proud, hey?

@ Rpm !

RichardP said:

cant these people just do something other than "Talk" ICASA is more the INCOMPETENT COMMUNICATIONS authority!

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Yeah, time (and time again) for some action - enough words!!

@rpm - great exposure!!!

Yes, ADSL pricing it too high. It really riles me to pay so much more than others seem to in the major geographies.

But even worse than the high broadband cost is 'consumer protection' legislation and regulation. In my view, the current problem is the legacy of decades of state interferene in telecommunications. Telkom, for yonks a division of SA Post and Telecommunications, with its own cabinet minister, was a legally protected monopoly, with strong 'consumer protection' regulation. This shut out any competition.

What we need is free and open competition.
What we need is DE-regulation. (Appointing the so-called SNO is not deregulation - it's just regulation with a duopoly instead of a monopoly.)
The longterm interests of the consumer are never served by interventions in the free market ... but of course, the market has to be free, which it currently isn't.

We should be demanding that the government scrap ICASA and the 200 or so Acts of Parliament that regulate and constrict an open telecommunications market in this country. (Just take a look at telecomms in Somalia, here.)
Of couse I know it'll never happen.
But I still don't want more laws.
Just my $0.02 worth.