SNO licensing in final stage

[AdLo]

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2005/0511291041.asp?S=Business&A=BUS&O=S

In terms of the Telecommunications Act, the SNO is three years behind schedule due to problems with the bids and finding an international investment partner. ICASA chairman Paris Mashile went on record earlier this year saying that it should be licensed before the end of November. However, it seems it will now be by the end of December.

“We should have good news for all within the next two to three weeks,” says Lumko Mtimde, the ICASA councillor chairing the SNO licensing committee.

 

[nGAGEd55]

And one year they'll say the same thing

 

[stoke]

And I should win the lotto in the next two to three weeks.
In addition, I should invent a new type of grass that grows in the dark.
While I'm busy with that, I should make my car 200% faster and safer using elastic bands.
And - on the side, I should make getting dressed in the morning a more enjoyable experience by hiring 10 peeps to help me, and claiming their salaries back as tax refunds.
During my tea break, I should overthrow the governmint by claiming back all my taxes that did nothing for me, and using that money to bribe every one to quit, and then I should actually issue the licence myself.

And I should have slightly longer tonails ...

 

[Turtle]

Every month they just search and replace all months with the following month and release the press release again. Here's a script to generate next month's:

s/December/January/
s/November/December/
s/1 March/sometime in 2006/

ICASA's inaction (going on for *months* now, and this SNO debacle four years now) suggests corruption or gross incompetence, why is there no accountability or even an investigation? *Sigh*.

 

[nGAGEd55]

and what about the draft ADSL regulations that were supposed to be out bout 2 months ago aswell?

 

[lewstherin]

Its a good thing I believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy, because otherwise I might think that the good folks at ICASA were lying to us again.

 

[YAPOC]

Imminent!

 

[neio]

I'm confused, why was it a requirement for the SNO to have a international investment partner?

 

[doobiwan]

So .gov can leech foreign capital.

 

[gljackson]

I don't know why, but I suspect that everything is being held up by the electronic communications bill and the ICASA bill.

I'm hoping something in the bills will have a positive effect on the SNO licensing, and the ADSL regulations, and thus need to be signed by our president first.

no - you can't have some of what I'm smoking.

 

[fergus]

I must say that sounds really imminent. Anybody else think its really imminent now?

 

[rasputyn]

“We are well aware of the importance the SNO has for the whole country,” he says.

I wouldn't have guessed that they were

 

[neio]

I must say that sounds really imminent. Anybody else think its really imminent now?

Roflmao

 

[Moederloos]

Its a good thing I believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy, because otherwise I might think that the good folks at ICASA were lying to us again.

Santa is bringing the SNO. Jingle Bells ,Jingle Bells ....

 

[Glipsie]

Santa is bringing the SNO. Jingle Bells ,Jingle Bells ....

You forgot to specify which year. Would that be 2010?

 

[sunsoffun]

Does anybody know if the SNO has started setting up their own infrastructure?

 

[Farquaon]

Yes, it has been done, transtel i think, and ericsson i know

 

[sunsoffun]

Santa is bringing the SNO. Jingle Bells ,Jingle Bells ....

Telkom paid Santa off. No SNO this year

 

[MaD]

The SNO is 3 years behind because of the fact that our communications minister is a useless bag of hot air, and would fit in much better at a retirement village than the communications department. Useless, totally useless.

 

[James]

Does the SNO have a name or will they just keep SNO as their name