{"id":546940,"date":"2005-10-04T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546940-icasa-meets-with-us-regulator.html"},"modified":"2005-10-04T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T09:29:44","slug":"icasa-meets-with-us-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546940-icasa-meets-with-us-regulator.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA Meets with US Regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The three day consultation aimed to serve as a platform for information sharing regarding a variety of issues in the telecoms arena.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to ICASA counselor Dr. Tracy Cohen, the meetings took the form of a general consultation and information sharing session amoung telecom regulators. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Included in the discussions were universal service and e-rate implementation; telecommunication pricing; alternative broadband technologies; competition and markets and competitive approaches to regulatory processes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Cohen stated that about an hour and a half was dedicated examining various broadband technologies and assessing their application in certain telecom environments.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The issue of local loop unbundling was also discussed briefly in their meetings added Cohen.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Three of the FCC\u2019s senior staff members attended as well as the ICASA Council, 20 ICASA staff, representatives from the Department of Communication and the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) met with their US counterparts, the Federal Communications Authority (FCC), in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546940"}],"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=546940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}