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Around the world, connectedness has begun to define the our ability to gain access to education, to participate in governance, and to create and access resources whether nationally or globally. Increasingly, we see a direct relationship between the growth of broadband infrastructure and national economic growth. The African continent is on the cusp of a broadband transformation as more and more undersea fibre optic cables find their way to African shores. However, in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, access to these new terabytes of fibre optic broadband only reaches major cities.

The WAPA General Meeting was held last week on Wednesday, 21 September 2011, from 14:30 to 17:30, in Centurion, at the iWeek 2011 conference. With 45 attendees representing 32 members and affiliates in attendance, the meeting was an opportunity for new members to meet the executive committee and long-standing members to catch up with their peers. The meeting commenced with a regulatory workshop presented by Sumaiyah Makda from

Miro IP Convergence Conference, 2 August 2011, Vodacom World, Midrand

 

ICASA are now implementing enforcement for all licensees, in respect of both reporting requirements and other ad hoc requirements such as notifications of change of shareholders or contacts. WAPA's regulatory advisor, Dominic Cull from Ellipsis Regulatory Solutions, recently met with the new head of the compliance division at ICASA, Godfree Maulana, to discuss some of the challenges facing licensees in compliance matters. ICASA feels that current levels of compliance are lacking and are intent on cleaning up the licence database.

Erick Wiese~Bosveld Internet Hi Maybe I'm not the one to talk but we have no real uncapped in SA. And this will probably be really off topic but...... There is always user problems when it comes to uncapped. For instance "i signed for a 384kbps uncapped solution but i can only download at 20 kbps" or "why is torrents so slow" and to make it even worse they use encrypted torrent downloader's multiple machines and external hard drives( port 443) that makes it almost impossible to detect.

The South African Broadband Internet industry began its digital evolution in the mid 2000s. Since then, internet access - fixed, wireless and mobile - has become a commodity. Wireless Operators have been investing in new and expensive technologies to create more sources of revenue, improve their ARPUs (average revenue per user), and overcome the competition in a heavily saturated marketplace.