Icasa in a sentence

It is also recommended that an organisation be created to manage the local loop and that this organisation should be under the guidance of the regulator Icasa and that Icasa be capacitated in terms of resources.

A list of approved RF equipment on Icasa’s website showed that an item called “Starlink Satellite Earth Station Gateway” had been approved in 2021.

All this has put the state’s crisis centers on pace to serve an estimated 1,400 fewer survivors or their families this fiscal year compared with the last, ICASA said.

Icasa’s public hearings continue until Wednesday.

Operating in the 60GHz frequency spectrum band – which, according to Colmer, must still be approved for Wi-Fi use by communications regulator Icasa – it provides ample bandwidth for data transmission and positioning accuracy.

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has issued temporary spectrum to Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Rain, and Liquid Telecom.

The list of names include two former councillors, Keabetswe Modimoeng and Peter Zimri, both of whom served at ICASA from April 2016 until June 2020.

While some of these complaints were referred to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), the NCC intervened in complaints relating to gadgets, router and handsets as stipulated in the CPA.

ICASA’s proposed obligation for mobile operators to deliver an average download and upload speed of 30Mbps and 15Mbps to 100% of the population is therefore logistically impossible, but Joosub said that it showed the right principle.

It does, however, give the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) the ability to move forward with the spectrum allocation.

New user regulations from ICASA came into effect at the beginning of March, compelling mobile network operators to change how they handle data, SMS, and voice bundles.

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has released a discussion document on the market inquiry into mobile broadband services in South Africa.

The mobile operator said that the direction provides an overview of spectrum licencing, and specific information would be needed from ICASA to determine the licensing process.

To the credit of the ICASA 5G forum, a spectrum working group was formed which amongst other subjects discussed the WRC19 spectrum issues and brought delegates up to speed with South Africa’s position.

To this end, Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has extensively engaged ICASA with regards to the aforementioned policy directive, her Ministry said on Thursday.

Cell C and Telkom, however, disagree with Vodacom and MTN – stating that ICASA should not begin a 5G spectrum licensing process yet.

He said it is not a good thing when ICASA takes a problem in one sector of the industry – like the data rules of cellular operators – and tries to solve it with regulation, instead of allowing more competition.

ICASA has released its latest tariff report, which shows that MTN’s data prices in South Africa are more expensive than most of the territories in which it operates.

ICASA introduced a new system of spectrum licence fee calculations on 1 April 2012 it called Administrative Incentive Pricing (AIP).

It’s not immediately clear if the developments mean Cwele will now withdraw a court challenge against Icasa, in which he is seeking to stop the regulator from proceeding with a spectrum auction.