{"id":6015,"date":"2008-11-17T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-17T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T08:28:00","slug":"vans-to-get-ecns-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/6015-vans-to-get-ecns-licences.html","title":{"rendered":"VANS to get ECNS licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA today announced that it intends converting all VANS to both Electronic Communications Services (ECS) licences and Electronic Communications Network Services (ECNS) licences.<\/p>\n<p>VANS licences granted after 19 July 2006, the date of the promulgation of the new Electronics Communications Act (ECA), will also be converted to ECS and ECNS licences.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court recently ruled that VANS were allowed to self-provide and attempts by communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri to challenge this ruling were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>This means that all VANS licensees can theoretically apply for Individual-ECNS licenses, but ICASA said that the decision on whether to award Individual or Class ECNS licences will depend on a variety of factors.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA has invited written representations from interested parties on the process of converting VANS licences to ECS\/ECNS licences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=146069\"><strong>VANS licensing discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All VANS to be issued with ECS and ECNS licences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}