Local Loop Unbundling options: your feedback needed
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) unveiled their long awaited Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) discussion document on 22 July 2011, and invited the public to participate and comment on the document.
As part of the document, ICASA outlined four potential Local Loop Unbundling options: full local loop unbundling (full access); line sharing (shared access to the local loop); sub-loop unbundling; and bitstream access (wholesale access).
ICASA asked the public and stakeholders, “What form of Local Loop Unbundling do stakeholders realistically favour in the South African market?”
MyBroadband partnered with Ellipsis Regulatory Solutions to make it easier for consumers to give their views and have their voice heard in the regulatory matter.
It should be noted that the various forms of LLU are not mutually exclusive, and full unbundling, sub-loop unbundling, line sharing and bitstream access can be concurrently implemented.
It is preferable that you tell us why you selected certain options, and also the reasons behind not selection certain options (if relevant).
Please give your views in the thread provided and vote in the poll in this thread.
Local Loop Unbundling – Give your views here
Ellipsis Regulatory Solutions will use your feedback to put together a document for submission to ICASA, and hence give consumers a regulatory voice.
LLU Options Explained
Full local loop unbundling (full access): operators will be given access to Telkom’s ‘raw copper’, and can therefore use their own technologies using the copper local loop.
Sub-loop unbundling: this allows operators to gain access to the copper at a primary connection point at street level.
Line sharing: Telkom will keep using the local loop to offer land-line telephone services, but unbundle the higher frequencies available on the copper cable for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services.
Bitstream access: this is essentially a wholesale data service. Four different Bitstream options were previously highlighted, including the resale of local traffic services, bitstream with collocation, bitstream without collocation and the resale of access services.
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