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ForgeAhead evaluates Telecoms Act
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dominic
Legal Expert: Telecoms
issues...i have issues
first-up i have met adrian schofield who has an intelligent, realist perspective on telecomms in sa
but...if you read between the lines of this report i see two huge unsaid's:
1. that a statement such as "The majority of objectives to be accomplished through the Telecommunications Act of 1996 were achieved" has to be qualified by the facts that these objectives were not easily quantifiable and that this was largely through unintended consequences
2. if these objectives could indeed have been said to have been achieved then it is despite telkom....any progress in universal access has been due to the mobiles (and the nature of mobile services) and the use of wifi to provide services to previously-disadvantaged areas such as is happening in Knysna, Hermanus and countless other places around the country
the impending opening up of the municipal spaces and announcements that look to come soon regarding self-provision and ism usage will be the first direct positive intervention
the call for this report to be reviewed before the electronic communications bill is signed into law shows, excuse my feeling, what a potential fsckup we are heading for due to the DoC not doing this review prior to drafting the damn thing and almost bypassing the policy process entirely
my only comfort remains that affordable and universal telecomms access will come whatever
first-up i have met adrian schofield who has an intelligent, realist perspective on telecomms in sa
but...if you read between the lines of this report i see two huge unsaid's:
1. that a statement such as "The majority of objectives to be accomplished through the Telecommunications Act of 1996 were achieved" has to be qualified by the facts that these objectives were not easily quantifiable and that this was largely through unintended consequences
2. if these objectives could indeed have been said to have been achieved then it is despite telkom....any progress in universal access has been due to the mobiles (and the nature of mobile services) and the use of wifi to provide services to previously-disadvantaged areas such as is happening in Knysna, Hermanus and countless other places around the country
the impending opening up of the municipal spaces and announcements that look to come soon regarding self-provision and ism usage will be the first direct positive intervention
the call for this report to be reviewed before the electronic communications bill is signed into law shows, excuse my feeling, what a potential fsckup we are heading for due to the DoC not doing this review prior to drafting the damn thing and almost bypassing the policy process entirely
my only comfort remains that affordable and universal telecomms access will come whatever
TheRoDent
Cool Ideas Rep
Adrian Schofield intelligent? You must be joking. Anyone that believes that the objectives of the Teleco act(s) have been met must be crazy. No matter how intelligent they are.