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Electronic Communications Network (ECN), a leading provider of converged voice and data solutions, has embarked on an aggressive campaign to compel all PABX vendors to unblock calls to numbers prefixed by ‘087’. All value-added network service (VANS) providers offering voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services were issued ‘087’ numbers by ICASA. ECN, is one of the first […]

[ Johannesburg, 25 September 2008 ] – Communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s appeal against the August 29 Altech judgement is merely a thinly disguised attempt to protect the incumbent operators from competition. Even worse, it means that Icasa now has an excuse not to issue the new electronic communication licenses that would finally have leveled the […]

DESPITE a call by Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda for cheaper telephony, the industry regulator has issued new regulations that dash any hopes of lower calling fees. The overinflated cost of making a call from one cellular network to another will remain in place, with no reduction to the interconnection fee of R1,25 a minute. The […]