{"id":39261,"date":"2011-12-02T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39261"},"modified":"2011-12-08T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:14:03","slug":"icasa-nails-arcellormittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/39261-icasa-nails-arcellormittal.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA nails ArcelorMittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pretoria Regional Office of 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> has pounced on <a title=\"ArcelorMittal\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387169-ArcelorMittal\">ArcelorMittal<\/a> South Africa in Pretoria West for illegal use of the radio frequency spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said that they initiated an investigation into the company about three weeks ago, and an inspection on 24 November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>During the inspection, ArcelorMittal failed to produce licences for the radio equipment (repeaters, simplexes and telemetry systems; and mobile hand-held radios) that are currently being used.<\/p>\n<p>ArcelorMittal was given written notice to pay an estimated R2m in licence fees for using the spectrum without authorization, within 7 days &#8211; and the notice expired on 01 December 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In executing a warrant issued by the Pretoria Magistrate\u2019s Court, the regulator seized 5 repeaters and 6 mobile hand-held radios at the company\u2019s Pretoria West office &#8211; and will continue to visit other offices of the company in other parts of the country for continued seizure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has pounced on ArcelorMittal for the illegal use of the radio frequency spectrum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,7177,533],"class_list":["post-39261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-arcellormittal","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39265,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261\/revisions\/39265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}