ICASA is a disaster: WikiLeaks cable

[jes]

ICASA is a disaster: WikiLeaks cable

U.S. company representatives all agreed that ICASA is a “disaster”, according to WikiLeaks cable

 

[BeVonk!]

TIA

 

[Niren_M]

ICASA ~ DISASTER rhymes nicely.

 

[JerryMungo]

This brings back memories, who recalls that AT&T were going to be a major shareholder in our next SNO? 2001 if I recall, until ICASA said (again and again ad nauseum) "No, the guys who pay us don't want it".

Whatever happened to Eskom's Pan African cable infrastructure? I recall they had teams laying Fibre and taping it to powerlines - operating many times faster and cheaper than any undersea cable could be laid. The last time I recall hearing about it (apart from them selling it off) was when they were short one country to bridge the entire length. Is 'that' cable around and in use?

 

[LeonP]

As if we needed Wikileaks to tell us that!

 

[BobsLawnService]

There once was an org named ICASA,
Which everyone agreed was a disaster,
They saw all the telecoms flaws,
Hid behind their closed doors,
And blindly continued to serve their corporate master (Telkom)

RPM I expect some sort of prize in my postbox now.

 

[Nicko]

There once was an org named ICASA,
Which everyone agreed was a disaster,
They saw all the telecoms flaws,
Hid behind their closed doors,
And blindly continued to serve their corporate master (Telkom)

RPM I expect some sort of prize in my postbox now.

1000 Internet points for you sir!!!

 

[bekdik]

WOW!!!!!!

Who would have thought?

 

[ThinkCentre]

The only things that this government could establish, is a beautiful apartheid museum and a gravy train of note! The rest is all a mess!
By the way, the record for the biggest division between the rich and the poor in the world, also belongs to South Africa!

 

[JerryMungo]

WOW!!!!!!

Who would have thought?

+1000, applies to almost every wikileaks article. Funny how we think things but its a sin to say them out loud.

 

[boerseun]

This is true for all gvt departments I suppose. The skilled gets poached by the private sector while the morons gets left behind.

 

[moosag]

And this is news how??? I guess you need a fat American Diplomat to say something before its taken into consideration...

Us normal average South African citizens dont count for much....

I am loving the Egg on the ANC's face right now....

 

[Electron1]

There once was an org named ICASA,
Which everyone agreed was a disaster,
They saw all the telecoms flaws,
Hid behind their closed doors,
And blindly continued to serve their corporate master (Telkom)

Sums it up quite nicely.

 

[Palimino]

As if we needed Wikileaks to tell us that!

Yeah. I am ungobsmacked and not reeling around in startled surprise.

 

[LazyLion]

ICASA have been as useful to the SA Telecomms scene as cement shoes on an Olympic Athlete!

 

[w1z4rd]

ICASA, supporting telkom, vodacom, cellc, neotel, sentech and other providers in raping the consumer since 95.

 

[Beri]

i am sure with 14 trillion in the red the USA should keep their mouth shut

 

[Skerminkel]

ICASA have been as useful to the SA Telecomms scene as cement shoes on an Olympic Athlete!

As useful as an ankle guard to Oscar Pistorius.

 

[devilfp]

There once was an org named ICASA,
Which everyone agreed was a disaster,
They saw all the telecoms flaws,
Hid behind their closed doors,
And blindly continued to serve their corporate master (Telkom)

RPM I expect some sort of prize in my postbox now.

Give him a bells

 

[mfumbesi]

“all agreed that the national regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), has been a ‘disaster’ since it was created in 2000.”

We all knew this, but it still feels good to have someone like Intel or Cisco say it out loud. Well in a kind of leaked document way, you get the idea anyway.....