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 | News: ICASA Councillor nominations |
 Parliament has called for nominations for ICASA Councillors.
Individuals as well as organisations may put forward their candidate
nominations to parliament. A potential candidate should satisfy the
following conditions:
"• Committed to fairness, freedom of expression, openness and accountability .
• Representative of a broad cross-section of the population of the
Republic and will possess suitable qualifications, expertise and
experience in the fields of, amongst others, broadcasting policy,
electronic communication and postal policy or operations, public policy
development, electronic engineering, law, marketing, journalism,
entertainment, education, economics, finance or any other related
expertise or qualifications .
• A South African citizen permanently resident in the Republic"
In nominating a potential candidate, the nominator is required to include the following information:
"Full name and address of the
institution and/or individual making the nomination;
The nominee's
signed acceptance of the nomination and his/her Curriculum Vitae,
providing at least the following information:
• Full name, ID number
and gender • Contact address, telephone and telefax numbers, e-mail
address • Previous experience, quoting dates and organisations
concerned • Academic qualifications."
Alternatively, you could visit the MyADSL thread on this topic, which can be found here.
If you feel as strongly about the state of telecoms in SA as we do, and
you want to make a difference by supporting non-Telkom backed
candidates, we urge you to participate in this process. Please click
'read more' for the press release and contact details on this.
As far as we are aware, the cut-off date is this Friday (4 August 2006).
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Posted by antitrust on Tuesday, August 01 @ 14:15:01 CDT (2862 reads)
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| News: Hellkom.co.za says it as it is. |
An excellent article written up by Greg the owner Hellkom.co.za. The
article brings up a lot of excellent points and has a very graphic
picture that lets you know right away what the most important issues
are.
"The South African Government owns almost 40% of Telkom, yet only 10%
of South Africans have access to a phone line. Our internet and
telephone charges are amongst the highest on this planet.
Prepaid cellular users pay twice as much as contract subscribers, yet
they are the ones who can least afford it. All the cellular networks
have a minimum of 80% prepaid users. Average revenue per user is a
fraction of contract subscribers - indicative of the fact that people
are aware it's too expensive to use prepaid as they would like to..."
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Posted by antitrust on Sunday, May 28 @ 22:47:50 CDT (2529 reads)
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| News: ICASA releases ADSL Draft Regulations |
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One small step!.... in the right direction. ICASA have posted there draft regulations, I advise everyone to have a look into it. Those who wish to contribute ideas and opinions on this matter, are welcome to join http://www.broadband.co.za and enter open disccusion.
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Posted by antitrust on Saturday, December 03 @ 18:19:44 CST (2228 reads)
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| News: Drawing the battle lines |
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The thorny issue of who gets to regulate and license what in South Africa’s broadcasting and telecommunications industries has been put up for debate with the release of the third draft of the Convergence Bill.
By Ana Monteiro, Moneyweb, 30 May 2005
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Posted by Pan on Tuesday, May 31 @ 16:29:47 CDT (1854 reads)
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| News: Poison Ivy |
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We have really stupid ministers in our country. However, it seems the most idiotic of them all would be our own minister of telecoms here in South Africa.
Click on the read more link to find out more infomation!
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Posted by Pan on Monday, May 30 @ 14:51:17 CDT (3127 reads)
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