lewstherin
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) is seeking comments and responses from the industry relating to the decision taken last month by the minister to begin the deregulation of the telecoms sector.
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The colloquium will take place at The Campus, Wanderers Building, 57 Sloane Street, Bryanston on 20 and 21 October.
The first day of the colloquium will run from 11.30am until 5pm and the second will run from 8.30am until 4pm.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
This is the chance we as the MyADSL community have been waiting for!
We MUST send a delegation to represent our interests as informed consumers at this meeting!
I have reviewed the list of questions ICASA wants comment on, and there is a lot that we can provide to ICASA in our answers.
See the document here: http://www.icasa.org.za/default.aspx?page=1005
From the question document:<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">As such, given the Authority’s mandate to regulate the sector in the public interest and to ensure the protection of all players and consumers alike, the Authority is particularly interested in views on the Ministerial Determinations that fall broadly within the following cross-cutting themes:
1. Consumer protection
2. Pricing
3. Universal service/Universal Service Fund
4. Competition
5. Spectrum
6. Scope of Infrastructure
7. Interconnection Guidelines
8. Facilities Leasing Guidelines
9. Efficient usage of infrastructure
10. Regulatory audit of measures required
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We have got to make it clear to ICASA that they have yet to protect the consumer! Thus far they have protected the incumbent at the consumer's expense. Now is the time for ICASA to make right their years of consumer abuse.
Primarily our focus should be on pushing ICASA for as liberal an interpretation as possible - legalise WISPs and community WiFi, allow self-provisioning for VANS and cell operators, allow use of any international gateway etc.
Being in Durban, I cannot personally attend, however I'm quite happy to contribute to a travel fund or whatever to get RPM/delegates to the meeting.
We simply must have representation! What say you fellow forumites??
<font color="blue">Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the </font id="blue"><font color="red">SA consumer</font id="red"><font color="blue"> needs to make it happen</font id="blue">
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The colloquium will take place at The Campus, Wanderers Building, 57 Sloane Street, Bryanston on 20 and 21 October.
The first day of the colloquium will run from 11.30am until 5pm and the second will run from 8.30am until 4pm.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
This is the chance we as the MyADSL community have been waiting for!
We MUST send a delegation to represent our interests as informed consumers at this meeting!
I have reviewed the list of questions ICASA wants comment on, and there is a lot that we can provide to ICASA in our answers.
See the document here: http://www.icasa.org.za/default.aspx?page=1005
From the question document:<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">As such, given the Authority’s mandate to regulate the sector in the public interest and to ensure the protection of all players and consumers alike, the Authority is particularly interested in views on the Ministerial Determinations that fall broadly within the following cross-cutting themes:
1. Consumer protection
2. Pricing
3. Universal service/Universal Service Fund
4. Competition
5. Spectrum
6. Scope of Infrastructure
7. Interconnection Guidelines
8. Facilities Leasing Guidelines
9. Efficient usage of infrastructure
10. Regulatory audit of measures required
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
We have got to make it clear to ICASA that they have yet to protect the consumer! Thus far they have protected the incumbent at the consumer's expense. Now is the time for ICASA to make right their years of consumer abuse.
Primarily our focus should be on pushing ICASA for as liberal an interpretation as possible - legalise WISPs and community WiFi, allow self-provisioning for VANS and cell operators, allow use of any international gateway etc.
Being in Durban, I cannot personally attend, however I'm quite happy to contribute to a travel fund or whatever to get RPM/delegates to the meeting.
We simply must have representation! What say you fellow forumites??
<font color="blue">Telkom needs a leash, ICASA needs some guts, and the </font id="blue"><font color="red">SA consumer</font id="red"><font color="blue"> needs to make it happen</font id="blue">
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