{"id":39067,"date":"2011-11-30T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39067"},"modified":"2011-11-30T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:25:38","slug":"mobile-operators-off-the-hook-with-llu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/39067-mobile-operators-off-the-hook-with-llu.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile operators off the hook with LLU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226385-ICASA\">Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)<\/a> announced on 30 November that wireless <a title=\"local loop unbundling (LLU)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224823-Local-loop-unbundling\">local loop unbundling (LLU)<\/a> will not form part of their recently announced LLU plans.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said that \u201cfor the scope of this [LLU] enquiry, access to the local loop refers to the traditional fixed network, and not access to the mobile of fixed wireless network\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, the regulator said that they will undertake an enquiry into the unbundling of wireless access networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Authority will address access to wireless networks in an inquiry and a determination will then be made as to whether to conduct a Market Review into wireless access networks,\u201d ICASA said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211694-ISPA\">ISPA<\/a>, <a title=\"Mweb\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226947-MWeb\">MWEB<\/a> and <a title=\"Internet Solutions (IS)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226430-Internet-Solutions\">Internet Solutions<\/a> said that LLU should apply equally to access to mobile data services, but <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a>, <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> and <a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> argued that a mobile local loop does not exist.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Article<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"ICASA LLU findings: all the details\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/39053-icasa-llu-findings-all-the-details.html\"><strong>ICASA LLU findings: all the details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has no immediate plans to introduce wireless local loop unbundling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32426,"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":[4,14],"tags":[355,35,533,391,459,535,42,213,41,7053],"class_list":["post-39067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-internet-solutions","tag-ispa","tag-llu","tag-mtn","tag-mweb","tag-vodacom","tag-wireless-local-loop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39067"}],"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=39067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39093,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39067\/revisions\/39093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}