{"id":549682,"date":"2006-07-28T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T07:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549682-icasa-expected-to-extend-deadline.html"},"modified":"2006-07-28T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T07:21:01","slug":"icasa-expected-to-extend-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549682-icasa-expected-to-extend-deadline.html","title":{"rendered":"Icasa expected to extend deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This will give interested companies an extra 30 days to polish their applications. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Icasa invited companies to bid for a subscription broadcasting licence to increase consumer choice and end MultiChoice&#8217;s monopoly. MultiChoice, satellite radio provider WorldSpace and signal distributors such as Orbicom and Sentech were given temporary permission to continue with services but will have to apply for a licence.<\/p>\n<p>Icasa said it was giving companies time to understand the new licensing structure brought by the new Electronic Communications Act (ECA).<\/p>\n<p>Under the ECA, telecommunications and broadcasting licences will be changed to either service or infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>Commercial broadcasting services, such as free-to-air channel e.tv and other channels of the SABC, will also be classified as individual licences or class licences.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">But an industry insider said the main reason for the extension was that Icasa received requests for extensions from different companies. <\/p>\n<p>According to the source, companies that have asked for an extension include Telkom and little-known entities Khetha Media and On Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is busy with video-on-demand trials with Microsoft and Alcatel. Telkom confirmed that it was preparing the application but would not comment further.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the number of meetings that Icasa had with potential applicants, acting senior manager of broadcasting policy, Pfanani Lishivha, expects fewer than 10 applications.<\/p>\n<p>Telecel, a cellular operator, last week said it would apply for a licence through its subsidiary, Goal Technology Solutions, which plans to offer video-on-demand by using electric power lines to transmit the services. It already offers wireless high-speed internet broadband over power lines.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have raised their concerns on whether video-on-demand can succeed as a stand-alone service.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=49113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Source:\u00a0 Business Day<\/font> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is today expected to extend the deadline for subscription broadcasting licence applications to the end of August.<\/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-549682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549682"}],"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=549682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}