{"id":35864,"date":"2011-10-12T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T09:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35864"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:26:29","slug":"bitstream-access-must-replace-%e2%80%98broken%e2%80%99-ipc-adsl-model-ispa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/35864-bitstream-access-must-replace-%e2%80%98broken%e2%80%99-ipc-adsl-model-ispa.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitstream access must replace \u2018broken\u2019 IPC ADSL model: ISPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ICASA<\/a> Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)<\/a> hearings are in their second day (12 October 2011), with Cell C<\/a>, ISPA<\/a>, Internet Solutions<\/a>, MWEB<\/a>, Neotel<\/a> and Telkom<\/a> presenting.<\/p>\n

In their LLU presentation, the Internet Service Providers\u2019 Association (ISPA) told ICASA that the wired local loop, which is controlled by Telkom, represents a significant bottleneck in the delivery of quality, affordable broadband services to South African consumers<\/p>\n

ISPA supported LLU, and asked for a phased approach to the implementation LLU which includes the launch of a bitstream access service within the next two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe initial phase should see the introduction of naked ADSL and bitstream access for fixed broadband. There is no reason that ISPA is aware of as to why this could not be achieved by November 2011,\u201d said ISPA.<\/p>\n

ISPA argued that Telkom is able to release wholesale bitstream access services \u2013 IP Stream and Data Stream \u2013 by November 2011 as the services have already been trialled and are ready for implementation, but are being withheld due to concerns regarding the LLU process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese services would replace the largely broken current IPC model and their introduction should not be disruptive to Telkom,\u201d said ISPA.<\/p>\n

Naked ADSL<\/h3>\n

ISPA argued that Naked ADSL should have been included in the LLU discussion document.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current Telkom practise of bundling the voice and ADSL line is regarded by ISPA as prima facie anti-competitive and contrary to the anti-bundling provisions set out in section 13 of the Consumer Protection Act 2010,\u201d ISPA said in their LLU submission.<\/p>\n

ISPA further submitted that the basis for naked ADSL is already contained with regulation 9 of the Facilities Leasing Regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISPA calls for the launch of a bitstream access offering by November 2011 which will replace the \u2018broken\u2019 IPC ADSL wholesale model<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[2332,35,5564,5602,459,5604,5608,109],"class_list":["post-35864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","category-broadband","category-telecoms","tag-bitstream-access","tag-headline","tag-icasa-llu-hearings","tag-internet-service-providers-association","tag-ispa","tag-luu","tag-naked-adls","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35868,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35864\/revisions\/35868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}