ICASA postpones Carrier Pre-Selection
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) announced today (8 August 2011) that they have extended the implementation timeline for Carrier Pre-Selection (CPS) Phase 1 to 30 November 2011.
ICASA published Carrier Pre-Selection (CPS) Regulations on 27 September 2010, aiming to establish a framework in terms of which subscribers of an electronic communications service (ECS) licensee can access the services of another ECS licensee on a call by call basis by adding an access code to the front of a dialled number.
“The Authority has since engaged with industry on progress of CPS Phase 1 implementation. It was from those engagements that the Authority made a decision to develop an industry-led CPS code of conduct/practice to be completed in September 2011,” ICASA said in a press statement.
The telecoms regulator said that a general notice containing full details on the above mentioned developments will be published in the Government gazette in due course.
Carrier Pre-Selection (CPS) Regulations published on 27 September 2010 was preceded by the carrier pre-selection regulation of 2005 which were never implemented.
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