The SABC is off the hook following a complaint by the Freedom of Expression Institute to Icasa over the SABC’s ”blacklisting” controversy.
Geographic number portability has now become a reality, communications network operator Neotel said in a statement on Thursday.
The tasks involved in restoring the SABC as a credible public broadcaster are huge and urgently need to be taken up by Parliament.
Icasa chair Paris Mashile has expressed "foreboding" over the ability of local cellphone providers to accommodate network traffic during the 2010 Cup.
Vandalism, the weather and illegal handsets are just some of the apparent causes of South Africa’s recent cellphone coverage problems.
The SABC on Wednesday refuted allegations that its group head of news, Snuki Zikalala, manipulated content for political purposes.
The Freedom of Expression Institute accused SABC news head Snuki Zikalala of ”crass manipulation” of news through his blacklisting of commentators.
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/ 9 September 2008
Value Added Network Services operators now have their legal foot in the door and a central regulatory barrier is set to crumble like the Berlin wall.
Parliament wants to fire the existing SABC board, while the president and minister back the body.
Telkom has introduced a second area code for Johannesburg, which will operate alongside the existing 011 code. "Following an announcement of a move to the mandatory 10-digit dialling, Telkom has recently been allocated … the first batch of numbers in the 010 area code for use within the same geographic boundary as the existing 011 code," Telkom said on Tuesday.
”I am shocked to learn from ‘A democracy of untouchables’ (February 8) that Independent Communications Authority of South Africa councillor Robert Nkuna was involved in drafting the African National Congress’s proposal for a print-media tribunal,” writes the Democratic Alliance’s Dene Smuts.
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/ 14 December 2007
Television channel e.tv has called on the regulator to include it in any must-carry policy if it forces new pay-television providers to air SABC3 on their platforms. The South African Broadcasting Corporation is pushing for the regulation, which will force all pay television providers to carry its the SABC’s channels for a fee.
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/ 4 December 2007
The predominantly Afrikaner settlement of Orania in the Northern Cape has been granted a community broadcast licence by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa). The licence is valid from December 1 this year to November 30 2011, after which the community can apply for an extension.
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/ 25 October 2007
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Thursday dismissed an application by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) to get the full record of the blacklisting inquiry at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). The FXI had asked Icasa to subpoena the record to help it defend its complaint that the SABC had violated licensing conditions.