{"id":69938,"date":"2013-02-05T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69938"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:05:26","slug":"mobile-network-quality-report-here-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/69938-mobile-network-quality-report-here-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile network quality report here soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (<a title=\"ICASA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226385-ICASA\">ICASA<\/a>) said that complaints from the mobile operators about the methodology adopted by ICASA in conducting the Quality of Service tests stalled this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA promised in 2011 that it will continuously do testing on the quality of mobile networks, and publish quarterly results of their findings. This did not happen, and to date no reason has been furnished for the lack of reports.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator has now explained that since it had published the last report, the mobile operators raised queries about the methodology adopted in conducting the Quality of Service (QoS) tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICASA agreed to hold off on publishing any further results until a methodology document was finalized,\u201d the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo ensure that a neutral party manages the process, the methodology development was handled under the auspices of SABS TC74 WG 2. Operators and ICASA are members of this working group and have been tasked with developing a methodology document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ICASA also confirmed that it still receives bi-annual quality of service reports from the operators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are required to compile our own own report considering the results of the drive tests and compliance with the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter Regulation which prescribes the minimum standard for network quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said that it is still continuing to do drive testing, but these reports have not been published.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TC74 process has not proceeded as fast as ICASA would have preferred, and the Authority has taken the decision to proceed with the publishing of our drive test results once again this year, while still contributing to the SABS process,\u201d said ICASA.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said it intends to publish new mobile quality of service reports by March 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More ICASA news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"ICASA\u2019s failed mobile quality promise\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/69254-icasas-failed-mobile-quality-promise.html\"><strong>ICASA\u2019s failed mobile quality promise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mobile network quality: ICASA versus Operators\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/31654-mobile-network-quality-icasa-versus-operators.html\"><strong>Mobile network quality: ICASA versus Operators<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mobile operators fail quality test: ICASA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/28015-mobile-operators-fail-quality-test-icasa.html\"><strong>Mobile operators fail quality test: ICASA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa\u2019s broadband targets and spectacular misses\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/66856-south-africas-broadband-targets-and-spectacular-misses.html\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s broadband targets and spectacular misses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/63594-doc-committed-to-talking-about-broadband-and-ict.html\"><strong>DoC committed to talking about broadband and ICT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA says that the mobile operators\u2019 complaints about its network quality reports means that no further reports could be published to date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":57075,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,533],"class_list":["post-69938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69938"}],"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=69938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69964,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69938\/revisions\/69964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}