{"id":42107,"date":"2012-01-29T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42107"},"modified":"2012-01-29T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:14:48","slug":"telkom-fixed-line-monopoly-wont-be-protected-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/42107-telkom-fixed-line-monopoly-wont-be-protected-doc.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom fixed line monopoly won\u2019t be protected: DoC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Communications (DoC)<\/a> is cautious about commenting on whether they are concerned about Telkom\u2019s<\/a> profits in the light of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa\u2019s (ICASA)<\/a> plans for local loop unbundling (LLU).<\/p>\n

Government owns 50% of Telkom\u2019s shares, and in November 2011 ICASA published its findings after conducting a round of public hearings on LLU.<\/p>\n

In these findings, ICASA said that from the middle of 2012 it would conduct a regulatory impact assessment (RIA) of the cost and benefits of the various LLU models.<\/p>\n

Minister of Communications, Dina Pule<\/a>, said that they are wary to address the issues around Telkom and its monopoly until they receive the outcome of the RIA from ICASA.<\/p>\n

However, the DoC will not protect Telkom\u2019s monopoly, deputy director-general Themba Phiri said.<\/p>\n

According to Phiri, when the state issued LLU<\/a> policy directive it was showing its intention to promote a pro-competitive market.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Communications is wary to comment on Telkom profits in the wake of local loop unbundling, but says it won\u2019t protect the incumbent\u2019s monopoly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29072,"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":[3],"tags":[6002,35,533,2136,535,1021,8393,8395,109,8373],"class_list":["post-42107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-independent-communications-authority-of-south-africa","tag-llu","tag-local-loop-unbundling","tag-regulatory-impact-assessment","tag-ria","tag-telkom","tag-themba-phiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42109,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107\/revisions\/42109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}