State under fire for lack of progress in telecoms

Paris Mashile? ICASA? He has a whole lot of freaking room to talk! :eek:

ICASA is just as much to blame for being a cowardly, ineffective regulator.

He was the guy at the helm of the organization that was supposed to MAKE it work!

So what he is saying is "Yes, I didn't do my job!" Fire the guy already please!
 
  1. We have heard this all before for years
  2. The government does not care because they would have done something about it by now if they did
  3. ICASA have no room to talk. It is rich that they are pointing the finger at anyone else.
  4. Can we please have no more of these articles telling us what everyone already knows?
 
Telkom, SAA, Eskom, Post Office and any others I've missed all have one common denominator and that's the ANC's fingers in the pie.
They can't organise a pissup in a brewery let alone try run our country.

Fire the bastards already.
 
Lip Service

:rolleyes:When a system rewards incompetence it's obviously fundamentally floored. I can’t see the ANC being too cut up about a system that made them lots of cash. The fact that ICASA admits that managed liberalisation has failed is lip service.
The problem here is that the progressive companies e.g. the cellular service providers and ISPs are all seen as white. Despite huge BEE deals etc the ANC don't have a controlling interest in these "white" companies. Just look at the way the SABC and Telkom are protected
 
Paris Mashile, chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA, agreed that Telkom had been allowed to become a “dinosaur” that would struggle now that it faced competition. Moreover, about 40 companies licensed by the Department of Communications to offer services in rural areas had been “led up the garden path” by muddled policies and a lack of funding, he said.
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WOW!!!

Paris Mashile must either already have another job lined up [only guavamint actively seeks to employ incompetent narcoleptics], or expects to become famous as the former Poison Ivy arse-licker that was sacked by Poison Ivy just before Poison Ivy herself was sacked.

Interesting times we live in.

PS: this post is hopefully more coherent than an earlier unintelligible post.
 
ICASA should've been revamped ages ago, guavamunt should've extricated their fingers from their proverbial butts and enforced better telecommunications policies, i.e. liberalisation then privitisation.
As most others have already said, the ANC don't care and they made a lot of money out of doing it this way. They've also kept the poor uneducated which helps them.
They should all be fired!
 
tjunyat said:
ICASA should've been revamped ages ago, guavamunt should've extricated their fingers from their proverbial butts and enforced better telecommunications policies, i.e. liberalisation then privitisation.
As most others have already said, the ANC don't care and they made a lot of money out of doing it this way. They've also kept the poor uneducated which helps them.
They should all be fired!
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Actually, they were revamped from SATRA into the present form, and everybody hoped we would see some serious pressure and forced change. No such luck though. All we got were a bunch of self-contemplative baboons.
 
Takkies said:
:rolleyes:When a system rewards incompetence it's obviously fundamentally floored. I can’t see the ANC being too cut up about a system that made them lots of cash. The fact that ICASA admits that managed liberalisation has failed is lip service.
The problem here is that the progressive companies e.g. the cellular service providers and ISPs are all seen as white. Despite huge BEE deals etc the ANC don't have a controlling interest in these "white" companies. Just look at the way the SABC and Telkom are protected
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+1 What the fudge is the ANC spending all their Telkom-Shares money on? If its for the free rdp houses or feeding the poor, then it might be justafiable(to a certain exctent) but just exactly to where is the money flowing?
 
Tweak said:
+1 What the fudge is the ANC spending all their Telkom-Shares money on? If its for the free rdp houses or feeding the poor, then it might be justafiable(to a certain exctent) but just exactly to where is the money flowing?
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It goes directly into the National Treasury, along with all our taxes, to be divvied up by Trevor. Ultimately it goes into pockets, but not directly.
 
Gatecrasher said:
It goes directly into the National Treasury, along with all our taxes, to be divvied up by Trevor. Ultimately it goes into pockets, but not directly.
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That is only true for the shares officially owned by guavamint.

There are other shares which brokers hold on behalf of [acting as proxies for] guavamental employees [former and present], thereby allowing these fraudsters to get away with undeclared dividends from shares that conflict with the job functions they are supposed to be performing but invariably end up doing whatever will result in a higher dividend being paid behind the scenes.
 
tjunyat said:
ICASA should've been revamped ages ago, guavamunt should've extricated their fingers from their proverbial butts and enforced better telecommunications policies, i.e. liberalisation then privitisation.
As most others have already said, the ANC don't care and they made a lot of money out of doing it this way. They've also kept the poor uneducated which helps them.
They should all be fired!
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The only revamp required by ICASA is the removal of government interference. The "I" in ICASA is meant to mean "Independent", but they're everything but that...
 
sounds to me like Paris is trying to save his bacon due to Ivy's sacking...

now he announced that Managed liberalisation is not working people might look at him in a different light due to his decision to annoucne to the country that Ivy fekd up...
 
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