ICASA on telkom pricing

[dominic]

Mandla Langa - ICASA Chair - writing to Business Report - http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=562&fArticleId=2440931

"Again, Icasa is thrilled to see Telkom raising the debate on affordability of communications services in South Africa. This must be an ongoing national question until the cost of a local call is affordable to the majority of the population."

...sounds like this guy should be a mybroadband member!

 

[mbs]

Mandla Langa ...
...sounds like this guy should be a mybroadband member!

LMAO!!! Hey DOMINIC, he probably is, under a nom de plume - or else one of the many Guests always viewing something on this site (see Quick Link 'Who's Online')...

 

[dominic]

scary number of guests

i think i may have spotted minister ivy posting under the name ic

 

[mbs]

Ah Ha! The truth will eventually out!
No wonder there's so many postings under IC -
All the Ministry minions make this possible!

 

[rpm]

scary number of guests

i think i may have spotted minister ivy posting under the name ic

LOL

 

[hArTh]

ic outed I see ...

 

[ic]

scary number of guests

i think i may have spotted minister ivy posting under the name ic

Ah Ha! The truth will eventually out!
No wonder there's so many postings under IC -
All the Ministry minions make this possible!

ic outed I see ...

IC is probably the collective Borg of DoC minions that haven't had a pay raise yet (or have they )...

[@Poison Ivy] Resistance is Futile, you will be assimilated, you will agree with us, you will gives us a raise & bring us our tea & biscuits...

 

[dominic]

to return to normal programming....

was doing some research and found this in the ICASA Act of 2000 - this is the Act under which ICASA is formed and which regulates the manner in which it operates

"Section 3 – Establishment of Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
3(2) The Authority is independent, and subject only to the Constitution and the law, and must be impartial and must perform its functions without fear, favour or prejudice.
3(3) The Authority must function without any political or commercial interference."

ICASA Councillors should have an oath of office:
"I will be independent. I will be impartial. I will perform my functions without fear, favour or prejudice. I will request that the honourable minister mind her own business. I will not tolerate the honourable minister making a fool of me by changing my decisions at the last possible moment. Telkom is not my friend and its shareholders are not my concern.The affordability of communications for all South Africans is my mission."

If i look at the above sections and consider the power to impose all sorts of funky restrictive conditions on telkom that ICASA will probably have under the new Convergence Act, I realise more and more that these guys are our one real hope..

so send them all the relevant info, be polite, be co-ordinated and be sure to hug an ICASA councillor today

 

[ic]

Yep, I came to the conclusion a while back that the problem is not ICASA at all - it's Poision-I, she has the final say, she decides not to rattyfy ICASA's recommendations by signing them into law by Government Gazettation.

The only thing I am not happy about with ICASA is it is somewhat disorganised in the communicate with the public department - I want to know by email notification everytime ICASA gazettes something, or calls for public participation...if we know about it we can participate & help make it robust & just, if we only find out about it at the last minute then we cannot give it sufficient attention.