WUGs to be licence exempt?

[dominic]

ICASA has issued out a notice of its intention to revise the draft regulations with regard to licence exemptions

My understanding of the new draft is that it makes very specific provision for granting a licence exemption to WUGs where the services run over them are run on a non-profit basis

4(b) Where a small electronic communications network communicates with other such networks across the boundaries of the different properties upon which they are installed using only radio equipment operating in radio frequency spectrum bands that are exempt form licensing to form mesh networks, such aggregation of small electronic networks continues to be subject to a licence exemption provided that
(i) the provision of ECS over such mesh networks is limited to exempted ECS in terms of clause 3(1); and
(ii) no capacity on the aggregation of the small electronic networks is sold, leased or otherwise made available to any Licencee.

- a small electronic communications network is one limited to a single premises
- the reference to clause 3(1) means that communication services over the exempt network must be non-profit

document is the top link on the ICASA home page - www.icasa.org.za
Notice of Intention to Revise Draft Licence Exempt Regulations Published on 08 September 2007

as far as i can make out this is crafted specifically to the WUGs and i can see no reason why this should change in the final regs (altho think ICASA and ADSL regs....)

congratulations for now especially to the guys who went to the workshop and convinced ICASA

 

[Ryder_JHB]

w00t! (I hope)!

 

[stoke]

Cool bananas.

 

[rsachoc]

Brilliant news that! Lets hope ICASA is thinking the same as Dominic