The national signal distributor would benefit from competition in the signal transmission and wireless broadband arenas, it says.
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Service providers insist they cannot be expected to police the Internet for illegal online gambling.
Described as in a “state of virtual disarray, if not wholly dysfunctional”, the DOC wants to focus on the future.
The banking sector is unable to implement parts of the Companies Act, and is in talks with the department about the situation.
The industry will be able to comment on ICASA's draft radio frequency regulations, particularly around the exclusion of an empowerment clause.
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The implosion of the government's Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office would be a very big deal. It would, at a stroke, reduce South Africa's entire economy to "informal" status.
An urgent clean-up and forensic audit are required as the office is implicated in one case of fraud after another.
The legislature rejects the DOC's attempt to brief Parliament on the current ITU conference by using a document from the 2006 event.
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