WiMax rules wishful

didnt eskom do something similar? i mean chase after the whole bee ideal and let everything else be da**ed? im fairly positive that if i***a stick to the 51% thing, either no wimax licences will be sold or so few that you can count them on one finger.

also if one is sold, i seriously doubt it will lead to a viable player in the market as the guys are gonna be so focused on paying back the loan they gonna shaft everyone and their cats. or maybe we might see some govt official arrive and say he has a company that is 51% black and then take the cash from the loans that was meant to buy the licence and build the network and say "eish we was robbed by the racist white man who overcharged us on the cables for the wimax"
 
I don't think there are too many financial backers willing to take a risk investing in a company where they put up the money, must aquire the skills, in a high risk venture, in a market where competition is on the verge of exponential growth and where ROI is not an easy case to make... and wait for it, they still have to hand control of their venture over to a BEE.

The more likely case is that a few BEE companies may choose to expand in this market of their own accord, artificially limiting growth in the industry and allowing virtual price gouging.

In short this kills competition, but then again according to ICASA all VANS are already largley BEE.

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BS thinking by ICASA

Please let Alan Knott-Craig chair ICASA
 
ICASA and BEE

The bottom line is that VANS are not transformed companies. You only have to look at the BEE strategies in all the big players to realize that none of them have moved with the times. I think ICASA and the public at large has had enough of empty promises from industry on transformation. This is an excelent way to seriously encourage real transformation of the sector.
 
i am really getting sick and tiered hearing BEE , it's bad period.
besides promoting only one group isn't representative of the whole SA
 
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another racist policy implemented in post 1994 south africa, nice going.
 
subatomic said:
The bottom line is that VANS are not transformed companies. You only have to look at the BEE strategies in all the big players to realize that none of them have moved with the times. I think ICASA and the public at large has had enough of empty promises from industry on transformation. This is an excelent way to seriously encourage real transformation of the sector.
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Do you work for icasa.

I don't think you see the big picture.

With these regulations 1 or 2 companies benefit. If the change it, the whole population of sa get to benefit.

Keep in mind wimax will mostly be used to service previously disadvantaged areas with internet. Cheap internet at that.

So which is better.

Uplifting whole communities vs uplifting some fat cats?
 
subatomic said:
The bottom line is that VANS are not transformed companies. You only have to look at the BEE strategies in all the big players to realize that none of them have moved with the times. I think ICASA and the public at large has had enough of empty promises from industry on transformation. This is an excelent way to seriously encourage real transformation of the sector.
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The same way it transferred Eskom bright spark? Some people are to stupid to learn from past mistakes.
 
subatomic said:
The bottom line is that VANS are not transformed companies. You only have to look at the BEE strategies in all the big players to realize that none of them have moved with the times. I think ICASA and the public at large has had enough of empty promises from industry on transformation. This is an excelent way to seriously encourage real transformation of the sector.
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hey

to an extent i agree with you but this appears to be an arbitrary imposition borne out of frustration - the frustration is the result of a lack of coherent policy

the industry does need to transform one way or another but
- where are the policies for the development of SMME's and others from previously disadvantaged communities which the Minister was meant to finalise under the ECT Act and the ECA?
- ICASA has not enforced the existing HDI (aka BEE-lite) requirements
- the under serviced area licensees: hung out to dry by the DoC, ICASA and USAASA and now an abject policy failure (the USALs were explictly a borad-based empowerment exercise)

having said that it is also not true to say that there are no excellent majority black owned businesses with a proven track record...
 
But is WiMax worth the time and money these deals absorb?
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Well if you're someone who has aspirations to provide a national 'true' broadband service and you're not a fixed-line incumbant (have copper) or a mobile operator (have GSM/UMTS spectum), then you really have no other 'standards based' choice.

Suppose if you're a bit wacho you could gun for a 2nd iBurst license.
 
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