The DoC, ICASA and LLU: Deadline schmeadline
What did the November 2011 Local Loop Unbundling deadline really say, and are ICASA and the DoC trying to claim success amidst massive failure?
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/26535-telkom-comments-on-llu-uncertainty.html
Telkom says that the impact of LLU on the company will depend on the forum of LLU imposed by ICASA
November 2011 Local Loop Unbundling deadline a pipe dream?
The DoC keeps punting November 2011 as the implementation date for LLU, but further doubt is cast on the feasibility of this deadline
In telephony, a local loop is the wired connection from a telephone company's central office in a locality to its customers' telephones at homes and businesses. This connection is usually on a pair of copper wires called twisted pair. The system was originally designed for voice transmission...
Local loop unbundling critical to National Broadband Plan: DoC
Communications Minister Roy Padayachie says that building an efficient, competitive and responsive ICT infrastructure network is critical to SA
Saving Telkom: Free the local loop
You have to feel sorry for Telkom. Nobody loves them, the press love to write bad news stories about them and even worse, nobody understands them.