Paying ICASA for spectrum

If they're owed money, they must collect it.. plain and simple..


As an aside to this, I think we need a newer photo of dominic... someone trump up the money and send him on a professional photo shoot :p
 
ToxicBunny said:
If they're owed money, they must collect it.. plain and simple..
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As I understand it, the money ICASA collects, goes to the Treasury Department.

ICASA isn't going to become competent any time soon and given that the head honcho of the Treasury Department is Pravin Gordhan who is the cANCer's former chief money collector (SARS), the Treasury Department should take over the business of busting knee caps and associated money collecting activities.

ToxicBunny said:
As an aside to this, I think we need a newer photo of dominic... someone trump up the money and send him on a professional photo shoot :p
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I suspect that photo was taken at the ICASA offices during the LLU hearings and I agree that a new photo would be a good idea considering that dominic has a bit of a Hawking thing going on in this tired old photo.
 
SARS should just be sent to collect :p

But I don't think it's as simple as that, I suspect there are disputes hence the noncompliance. End of the day unless icasa put their foot down, its business as usual irrespective of who picks up the cheques.

Kinda like the argument that crime in SA is where it is due to punishment not being harsh enough... it doesn't matter when courts, investigating officers etc mess things up and criminals get off before getting to prison.
 
Will the regulator be forced to follow up on the more than 700 licence holders who owe it money?
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What an interesting question. When Joseph Lebooa goes to the first licence holder on his list that owes money, Wireless Business Solutions, and tells them to pay up, he gets hijacked, stripped, beaten and physically threatened. His home is raided and his water main is cut off. And Wireless Business Solutions lays a charge of crimen injuria against him, for daring to report the hijack and threats made against him.

A little message from the wireless industry in general? Maybe the next company on Lebooa's list decided to send a little message, to delay getting a bill from him? I find the lack of comment on this article interesting, as it gives the essential background on the WBS case -- that of all the companies that owe money, this was just the most politically charged and contentious one at Icasa, so it was put at the top of Lebooa's list when he took on the job. I am interested to see colleagues of his attest that he is not the kind of person who succumbs to bribes, and presumably also not the kind of person who tells lies about being hijacked, beaten and threatened. I seriously think we have a most unusual case here, a good guy at Icasa, and he should be getting support from this forum for chasing down the money that is owed.

WBS's attempt to intimidate Lebooa by laying charges of crimen injuria against him is, seriously, one of the most pathetic bits of legal rubbish I have ever seen, even from SA telecoms operators. The mind truly boggles at what WBS are alleging. Either Lebooa is telling the truth, or he is lying. If he is telling the truth, then it could be any one of WBS's shareholders or even one of WBS's competitors trying to tarnish the company's reputation (as if it could get any worse) who carried out this crime. Lebooa did not (as far as I can see) directly allege that the management of WBS was involved in the attack on him. He was just told that he was being beaten because his activities threatened WBS. As far as I'm concerned, this is a totally baseless accusation from WBS, clearly designed to intimidate. If the issue wasn't so serious, I would describe it as totally frivolous. This is what WBS's lawyers are busy with? When it is totally clear from what Icasa says, that they do have extensive illegal infrastructure, as I've been telling you for years? This is what WBS wastes its time and legal resources on? Intimidating decent people with completely baseless legal trash?

It is also disgusting that Icasa refuses to give Lebooa any legal support, when it seems he has come under severe physical attack and threat, as well as legal intimidation, as a direct result of actually trying to do his job at Icasa. Maybe Icasa is telling Lebooa to get in line and take the brown envelope. I really hope Joseph Lebooa sticks to his guns and refuses to be intimidated by any of these parties.

While it is clear that the entire wireless industry is totally mired in illegality, which I've been trying to tell you people for years, it is clear that WBS is among the worst of the worst, which I've also been trying to tell you. You are harbouring serious corporate criminals on this very forum, while you all bleat about how bad "crime" is.

Will the regulator be forced to do its job? Who is going to force them, except the public and consumers? Do you think the industry players around here are going to lift a finger to deal with their own criminality? Let us not forget which listed companies are shareholders in WBS/iBurst. When is someone going to tell JSE that corporate governance is not merely a public relations function, where companies just tell whatever lies are required? Who is going to force WBS's listed stakeholders to report all this skulduggery to shareholders, and say -- your dividends are based on systematic, sustained criminality, lies and fraud?

The "shareholder activist" Theo Botha told me something interesting. When he goes to company meetings with one of his dossiers of corporate wrongdoings, he says he does not even bother to open his mouth unless there are journalists present. I will confirm his perception from my own experience. There is only one thing thing that will force these companies to do anything remotely approaching the right thing: expose them to the public. It is certainly the only thing that will goad the JSE or the government into action. We need some real investigative journalism here, urgently.
 
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