The priorities of ICASA's 5-year plan

It is great to hear that ICASA has set out it's priorities and had these approved.

I hope there is a way to get more telephony-related items onto their agenda as well to free this part of the market.

A few (but not all) examples:

There is an item for reducing termination (which is a high priority) but we also need the ability to port all numbers (including 086, 087, 080), and more regulation around the interconnect agreements and around porting in general.

On the operational side, it would be useful to have ICASA focus on the operations around number allocation and more hands-on regulation of the interconnect market.

There are a number of us in the business more than willing to assist here, to help truly liberate voice and multimedia telephony services for all South Africans in terms of pricing, quality, service levels and innovation.
 
MickeyD said:
This article outlining ICASA's plan should be "stickied" in this sub-forum --> http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/forumdisplay.php/88-CPA-Telecoms-Regulation-and-Consumerism

This way we can track actual progress to their plan.
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I hope it does not end up in tracking the postponements in their plan. Honestly these grandiose plans always sound lovely and by the time they should be actioned we just get another colloquium or another set of draft regulations by a brand new ICASA panel and a brand new minister.
 
I don't believe a word of it.
Seeing !casa's current abysmal track record, we can expect more of the same.
With hollandaise sauce on top.
 
b166er said:
I hope it does not end up in tracking the postponements in their plan. Honestly these grandiose plans always sound lovely and by the time they should be actioned we just get another colloquium or another set of draft regulations by a brand new ICASA panel and a brand new minister.
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...or another indaba or legotla as we see this as a challenge and then we appoint a sub committee to to investigate the proposed plan of action and they will report back in 2 years time then we held another legotla to outline the short and long term blueprint for the way forward and then we .......
 
they've already stuffed the pooch on LLU by effectively undoing their own Facilities Leasing Regulations on the subject - what is needed is an ECN with cash and balls to force in LLU at certain exchanges.
DTT is a waste of energy and really just move over to satellite and tripple play options.
 
that list of tasks is going to look like the airport's arrivals and departures list on 11 september 2001:

delayed
cancelled
cancelled
delayed
delayed
delayed
cancelled
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Trash DTT completely. We have some of the most advance digital satellite television options available.
 
Rouxenator said:
Trash DTT completely. We have some of the most advance digital satellite television options available.
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DTT is not only about digital TV. It's about improving spectral efficiency, and freeing up spectrum which can be used for LTE, broadband and other services. If we trash DTT, and stick with analogue, we'll be even further behind the developing and developed world than we already are, not forgetting the utter uselessness of ICASA itself.
 
Ok, let me rephrase, trash *.TT. Using terrestrial transmission for senseless one way streaming of media is just wrong. Lets use the whole spectrum for latency sensitive transmissions like LTE/WiMax.
 
^ I am really starting to think that MyBroadband should set out a big bad article about the folly of the DTT wars started by the department and the value of skipping transmission adaptation entirely.

More importantly the only way ICASA can truly make a meaningful contribution is if it makes events like the LLU hearings (which regardless of the final mucking at least lays a framework) an integral feature of how ICASA operates.
 
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