Posted by LA Thornton on Wednesday, March 30, 2016,
ICASA has released a slew of government notices from March-April 2016, which include the following.
- South African Music Regulations, 23 March 2016
- South African Local Content Reasons Document - March 2016
- Local Television Content Regulations, 23 March 2016
- Increased fees associated with spectrum licences effective 1 April 2016
- Amendment to the Guidelines Relating to Type Approval Framework to extend the time for ICASA to process type approval applications from 15 to 30 working days
- Increased admin...
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Posted by LA Thornton on Tuesday, April 12, 2011,
ICASA has finally replaced the old Radio Regulations made prior to the Telecommunications Act, with the Radio Frequency Spectrum Regulations published on 31 March 2011. The Regulations set out application procedures (standard and extended) and forms and application fees. They also incorporate the spectrum licence exemption regulations and set out special provisions for services such as amateur radio, communal repeaters, burlar alarms, and citizen band services. It would appear that these "...
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Posted by LA Thornton on Wednesday, February 16, 2011,
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa amended the regulations regarding annual contributions to the Universal Service Fund on 10 Feb 2011. There are two noteworthy changes from the previously applicable regulations. The first is that the annual contributions will be due six (rather than three) months after a licensee's financial year end. This makes the due date simultaneous with the due date for annual licence fees applicable to service licences. The second is that the...
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Posted by LA Thornton on Wednesday, January 19, 2011,
Did you know that special temporary authorisations are available for purposes of testing, demonstrations and research and development. For more information, contact info@thornton.co.za.
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Posted by LA Thornton on Wednesday, December 1, 2010,
Did you know that all licensees must provide a 50 percent discount to public schools and universities for Internet services, including connectivity charges, charges for equipment and charges for calls to an Internet service provider? For more information, contact info@thornton.co.za.
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Posted by LA Thornton on Thursday, November 18, 2010,
Did you know that all individual electronic communications service and electronic communications network service licensees must file tariffs with ICASA? For more information, contact info@thornton.co.za.
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Posted by LA Thornton on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
Update: ICASA withdrew the invitation on 29 July 2010.
ICASA issued an invitation to apply for spectrum in the
2.6 GHz and
3.5 GHz bands in separate notices dated 28 May 2010. The applications are due to be filed with ICASA by
25 June 2010. ICASA also published a
Reasons Document and
Regulations on the procedures and criteria for granting licences where there are competing applications.
The ITA for the 3.5 GHz band is to class electronic communications network service licensees for the purpo...
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Posted by LA Thornton on Wednesday, February 3, 2010,
ICASA is absolutely right. It may agree to contractual terms that limit its statutory obligation to regulate interconnection. It legally cannot do so, and as a matter of policy, should not do so. Well done!
But is this stopping the three mobile cellular licensees from reducing interconnection rates? Absolutely not. Under the EC Act, ICASA must make regulations and after that, all interconnection agreements must be vetted by it to make sure they comply with the regulations. However, no reg...
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Posted by LA Thornton on Monday, December 7, 2009,
ICASA published another set of draft facilities leasing regulations for public comment. You can download a copy
here.
In case you were wondering - yes, you have seen draft facilities leasing regulations before, not once, but twice, since the coming into force of the EC Act.
ICASA published draft facilities leasing regulations in Government Gazette 30091 dated 24 July 2007. Those draft regulations were pretty good, eliminating most of the problems with the existing regulations, which had been p...
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