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WAPA tackles ICASA
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It is therefore not surprising that organizations will now look seriously at the legal system for help. If ICASA’s decisions are based on a fear of legal threats rather than sound telecoms policies and principles who can blame companies from threatening legal action…
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Precisely...
and its very very worrying. What ICASA says should be law and there shouldn't be loopholes for the providers to weasel their way through.... ffs...
But then they farm out the regulations to companies who are probably in bed with the providers so the loopholes are glaringly obvious even to a moron.
and its very very worrying. What ICASA says should be law and there shouldn't be loopholes for the providers to weasel their way through.... ffs...
But then they farm out the regulations to companies who are probably in bed with the providers so the loopholes are glaringly obvious even to a moron.
geoffr
Telecoms Expert
The devil of the legal framework
WAPA will need to deal with the issue of how to justify, under the ECA, that wireless providers are entitled to "conversion" of a license. The problem, which exists here is that the ECA provides for a process of converting existing licenses. This means that WAPA members would need to be able to show what licenses they have, and justify that these be converted. This is tricky for those who are operating without a license. This may be a particularly tricky battle to fight, and one which should have been started during the drafting of the ECA, which would have been an easier time to acknowledge the contribution of wireless providers in the broader telecoms market. There is a possibility that the ECA itself may present an insurmountable barrier to WAPA members.
WAPA will need to deal with the issue of how to justify, under the ECA, that wireless providers are entitled to "conversion" of a license. The problem, which exists here is that the ECA provides for a process of converting existing licenses. This means that WAPA members would need to be able to show what licenses they have, and justify that these be converted. This is tricky for those who are operating without a license. This may be a particularly tricky battle to fight, and one which should have been started during the drafting of the ECA, which would have been an easier time to acknowledge the contribution of wireless providers in the broader telecoms market. There is a possibility that the ECA itself may present an insurmountable barrier to WAPA members.