Icasa pleads for patience

[ToxicBunny]

Ooooo icasa got a new love letter??!?!?!

loverly...

 

[dominic]

Care to go into a bit more detail as to what the contents of the love letter was?

i'll let rpm know soon

 

[ic]

Another challenge has been to determine appropriate licence fees. Smaller industry players have argued it does not make sense to impose onerous fees on ISPs and other companies that are overshadowed by incumbent operators. Icasa is still considering the fee structure.

Wait a minute - didn't Stalin-Mafole at the Dementia of Communistications recently tell the PPCC that she in her infinite stupidity already had all that figured out and !CASA just had to impose her new licence fee structure...

Socikwa says the industry is unfair in its criticism of delays. “They are unaware of the amount of research we have to do,” she says. “We need to study very varied licences. The six ‘individual’ licences — licensees such as Telkom and Neotel — are dissimilar in many respects and trying to align them is difficult. We have to look at international precedent, at case studies applicable to SA, the market structure, the economy. It’s a complex process.”

Ag shame, it must suck to get paid a huge salary and be expected to actually do some work in exchange for the remuneration...cry me a river.

Negotiations between Icasa and industry players have proved tough. Socikwa says companies too often use the threat of litigation to try to get their way. “This is not an industry that has a proclivity to negotiation and discussion. Instead, we receive threats of litigation.”

Some backbone accompanied by teeth would solve that problem would it not...

The incumbents, Socikwa says, are also keen on lengthy, legalistic licences while Icasa is trying to produce licences that are short, simple and written in plain English.

...She points out that the new licences will last for 15-20 years so they must be clearly written, well formulated and not open to interpretation.

Ah yes, reminds me of !CASA's outsourced ADSL Regulations - that are still a complete disaster full of holes and ambiguities, !CASA needs to have a bonfire to get rid of the dead wood within its ranks - specifically Ivy's plants...