ICASA’s trial by fire
- This column was first published in ITWeb Brainstorm, a South African business technology magazine, on 1 June 2007. Click here to subscribe and read it with a free photo of me reading a collection of Punch cartoons.
Remember when Telkom asked the regulator whether IP was a basic service, and when it replied nine months later, Telkom took it to court for not having jurisdiction in the matter? Well, here’s the sequel.
Telkom has thrown down the gauntlet to the regulator. Like any dominant incumbent with a legal department the size of the North Korean Army, it knows this game well. The regulator must respond to its proposed interconnection rates for other operators and value-added network providers. How it responds will show whether it is as impotent as its predecessor, or can regulate decisively in the public interest.
