Why we need deregulation NOW

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<br />Check out this article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/32998.html
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Agreed! only thing is the thought is <b>very</b> illegal here.......
 
Not quite. The law states that if Telkom are unwilling / unable to provide a service you have the right to provision it on your own.

A few years ago I was involved with an ISP and due to growth we needed HUGE bandwidth - locally in JHB. Telkom were unable to provide the service so we put up our own LoS wireless connections and lodged an application with SATRA for an exemption.

Needless to say we only got away with it for about a year I think. Telkom actually blackmailed us into taking the services down by insinuating (never officially or in writing of course) that they would suspend the last mile circuits to our clients....

So there you have it - the law DOES provide recourse, the problem is Telkom don't seem to give a sh*t...

There are 3 key things that have to happen wrt deregulation (I have mentioned them time and time again in other posts so won't here again).
 
Posted in the wrong topic. [:D] Sorry!
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ASF</i>
<br />Not quite. The law states that if Telkom are unwilling / unable to provide a service you have the right to provision it on your own.

A few years ago I was involved with an ISP and due to growth we needed HUGE bandwidth - locally in JHB. Telkom were unable to provide the service so we put up our own LoS wireless connections and lodged an application with SATRA for an exemption.
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Yes, the law does indeed say that, but you're only allowed to do that as long as Telkom's unable/unwilling to supply the service and it is only legal in the case where you're doing it <i>inside your own company</i>. Lotsa companies use LoS networks to connect buildings.
In many cases Telkom are quite willing to provide the service, but at a price that's prohibitive to you. Which, sadly, means you can't go and roll your own and be legal.
The WiFi Internet lot have picked loads of flack due to this. The legislation allows you to provide, wireless in this case, networking on your own premises, but you are not allowed to cross the property boundary with your service. So if I were to get an ADSL line, hook it up to WiFi and let my neighbour share the line, I'm breaking the law.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by ASF</i>
<br />Not quite. The law states that if Telkom are unwilling / unable to provide a service you have the right to provision it on your own.

A few years ago I was involved with an ISP and due to growth we needed HUGE bandwidth - locally in JHB. Telkom were unable to provide the service so we put up our own LoS wireless connections and lodged an application with SATRA for an exemption.

Needless to say we only got away with it for about a year I think. Telkom actually blackmailed us into taking the services down by insinuating (never officially or in writing of course) that they would suspend the last mile circuits to our clients....

So there you have it - the law DOES provide recourse, the problem is Telkom don't seem to give a sh*t...

There are 3 key things that have to happen wrt deregulation (I have mentioned them time and time again in other posts so won't here again).
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Recently I contacted ICASA on a number of occassions.

I want to subscribe to a 2-way satellite (PAS10) service which is provided by a company in Europe.
I wanted to know from ICASA why I could not do this.

I was told that Telkom held the monopoly on transmission to satellites ?? and I should apply to them.

I then said that Telkom could not supply the service I wanted.

ICASA said Ok I could then submit an application to them if Telkom refused my application and they would consider it.

I then asked what the costs would be assuming that we got this far.

The reply: <b>R50 000.00 per year license fee to ICASA ! + other costs</b>.[:(]

Embassies are allowed to have their own satellite link and they pay ICASA R50 000.00 per year.
 
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