Does ICASA use the Gregorian calendar?

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I was under the (obviously wrong) impression that Icasa would have released the draft ADSL regulations either 30 days after the public hearing or early September.
ICASA undertakes to embark on a regulation making process by early September 2005 in order to ensure provision of a consumer relevant, cost effective and affordable ADSL service.
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I guess they must be using some other calendar than the Gregorian calendar. Does anyone have any information about when we can expect the draft regulations?
 
They probably only 'embarked' on it last week and the process will now take a further six months to complete.

Well, lets hope it wont be too long. ICASA needs to say something before Nov 1st.

Spinz
 
Know somebody who works for ICASA and she mentioned that they will probably be releasing something round about the end of Sept. So this means about another 14 days to go? Can't wait! Let's hope that they don't back down on making Telkom drop the extra ADSL line rental.
 
Spindrift said:
I'll be happy if they just force telkom to not cap local.
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lol

Methinks that's exactly what Telkom had in mind, too. Make everybody forget about the real issues by threatening to someone even worse than what ICASA currently wants them to stop doing.
Everyone will forget about the line rental and embark on a war to ensure November 1 doesn't happen.

I'm afraid there are actually some brains in the Telkom management after all...
 
They probably tried to release their draft report via their website, but they got capped and have to wait till next month.
 
Im Sorry, but is it just me, or are everyone too worried about paying double rental insead of paying thousants of RRR in per gig billing?

Am i missing the bigger picture?

My logic tells me that per gig billing @ > 1500 for 30 gig and hard capping is a bigger issue than a few hundreds of RRR for a what? double rental?

Please correct me, because i must be wrong :P

Id say its easier to stop something that hasnt started yet, than to stop something already in the running.
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Stuff 1st nov, i would rather have the line rental dropped and sit on a 512k dsl line for about R250pm and 3gigs, than sit on my slow 64k isdn and pay R400+pm.

anyway we shouldnt be deciding between the two (i dont even see how they are related), bet thats exactly wat telkom would like us to do.

ps. i would place a very large bet on telkom not droppin the line rental. they kicked up too much of a stink about the findings and probably used every connection possible to steer things in their favour - hey, the board of directors just had to look to their left and nudge the directors representing the government's huge share, yes the same government who just happen to pay icasa salaries - *light bulb* can you say "economy crippling conflict of interest" !!!
 
Spindrift said:
I'll be happy if they just force telkom to not cap local.

Spinz
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You settle for so little? No! No local capping, higher international caps, less shaping and above all more affordable pricing...

That is the least we can ask for... :cool:
 
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