ICASA's Compliance Division comes after new ECNS and ECS Licensees

Posted by LA Thornton on Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The compliance division of ICASA has sent out letters to (some of) those licensees who had their licences converted to ECNS and ECS licences in January 2009, requesting proof that the licences are being used. The Standard Terms and Conditions regulations require that operations must have begun, depending on the type of licence, within six to twelve months from the date the licence was issued.
Wow. Of all the things ICASA could be doing to effectively regulate the industry, it is initiating a process to shut down a bunch of potential new competitors should they miss some arbitrary (unreasonable?) cutoff date for operations. Makes you wonder.

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