Icasa the obstacle
Now telecoms company DataPro has become a firm example of how bureaucratic inefficiency directly harms the bottom line of corporate SA.
DataPro has posted sterling results, with all its arrows shooting up, but its growth is being seriously impaired by Icasa.
In a nutshell, DataPro is one of several telecoms companies to have been granted a block of telephone numbers to hand out to its customers. Its customers will use those numbers to receive incoming calls and make outgoing voice calls or connect to the internet. Voila — no more dependence on Telkom.
“That could be a massive growth area for us with a significant positive impact,” says CEO Tony van Marken.
Except Icasa has yet to sign off agreements that Telkom and
Until those agreements are operational, a DataPro number is largely useless.
For once it isn’t Telkom that is deliberately being obstreperous to prevent its rivals from launching a new service. And you have to ask how long it should really take Icasa to sign off a deal that has already been concluded by the two main parties. At the moment it’s two years and counting.
Loading ...