{"id":552065,"date":"2007-04-20T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552065-icasa-the-obstacle.html"},"modified":"2007-04-20T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T07:24:04","slug":"icasa-the-obstacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552065-icasa-the-obstacle.html","title":{"rendered":"Icasa the obstacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Now telecoms company DataPro has become a firm example of how bureaucratic inefficiency directly harms the bottom line of corporate SA. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">DataPro has posted sterling results, with all its arrows shooting up, but its growth is being seriously impaired by Icasa. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In a nutshell, DataPro is one of several telecoms companies to have been granted a block of telephone numbers to hand out to its customers. Its customers will use those numbers to receive incoming calls and make outgoing voice calls or connect to the internet. Voila \u2014 no more dependence on Telkom. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThat could be a massive growth area for us with a significant positive impact,\u201d says CEO Tony van Marken. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Except Icasa has yet to sign off agreements that Telkom and <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Until those agreements are operational, a DataPro number is largely useless. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">For once it isn\u2019t Telkom that is deliberately being obstreperous to prevent its rivals from launching a new service. And you have to ask how long it should really take Icasa to sign off a deal that has already been concluded by the two main parties. At the moment it\u2019s two years and counting. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROCRASTINATION by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the communications department are stifling progress and competition in the telecoms sector. <\/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-552065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552065"}],"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=552065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}