The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will hold hearings on 4 and 5 March to consider arguments from industry players on the so-called “e-rate” discount of 50% to schools and some tertiary institutions.
Icasa introduced the e-rate regulations several years ago as way of reducing schools’ cost of communication, but the regulations haven’t had their [...]
Newly established state-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider, Broadband Infraco, will build five points of presence in SA’s major centres this year and will begin offering national backhaul connections on its fibre network at speeds ranging from 155Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s.
The company, which received a licence from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) in October last year [...]
Telecommunications company Neotel on Tuesday said it will be ready for individual number porting in April.
“The porting of numbers in blocks of 10 000 or 1 000 has been available for some months now,” said Angus Hay (pictured), executive head of technology at Neotel.
This had excluded many businesses as it was only relevant to very [...]
The East African Submarine System (Eassy), a 1,4Tbit/s sub-sea cable along Africa’s east coast, is on track to go live in eight months’ time, according to Neotel, one of the investors in the project.
Eassy is an operator-led initiative to build a cable system along a similar but shorter route to the Seacom cable, which recently [...]
The debate over cellphone interconnection rates is only about how much they would be reduced and over what time period, national assembly communications committee chairman Ismail Vadi said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the start of two-days of public hearings on the issue, Vadi said by holding the hearings the committee was taking “an extraordinary step to [...]
Telecommunications operator Neotel plans to open retail outlets in the country’s major urban centres as it seeks to expand its presence in the consumer market in the next few years.
The company has already opened its first store, at Cedar Square in Fourways north of Johannesburg.
Neotel has signed up 30 000 retail customers on its CDMA [...]
Telecommunications operator Neotel plans to open retail outlets in the country’s major urban centres as it seeks to expand its presence in the consumer market in the next few years.
The company has already opened its first store, at Cedar Square in Fourways north of Johannesburg.
Neotel has signed up 30 000 retail customers on its CDMA [...]
The first reportback on progress regarding mobile termination rates was expected in October, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) said on Friday.
The mobile termination rate — or interconnect fee — is the fee that one network charges another for terminating or completing calls on its network.
Earlier in the week, Icasa met with representatives [...]
Solidarity has asked the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for a significant cut in interconnect fees, the trade union said on Thursday. Interconnect rates are the amounts charged by networks for carrying calls on behalf of one another.
The union said a thorough investigation into the true cost of interconnectivity should be carried out. According [...]
Telecommunications companies have agreed in a meeting with the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to come together to negotiate a new interconnection regime by the end of the year.
In a statement following the meeting, which was closed to the media — TechCentral was asked to leave the room — Icasa indicated that representatives of [...]
