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The best news in years
ADSL South Africa (Broadband South
Africa), 2 November 2008
A
judge has denied the Minister of Communications leave to appeal
the ICASA/VANs judgment. This is probably the best news to hit
the SA telecoms industry in
years.
The SA telecoms playing field is now more level than ever
before…
ADSL and other broadband users in South Africa have
much to celebrate after Acting Judge N. Davis has stunned the Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
(alias ‘Poison Ivy’), by indicating that any application by the Minister for Leave to Appeal the ICASA/VANs
judgment will be refused on all points with cost.
In other words, ‘Poison Ivy’s’ attempt to overturn an earlier court
ruling, which ruled that ICASA’s licensing process is flawed and that Value Added Service Providers (VANs) such as
Altech have the right to build their own networks, has failed. If she presses ahead she will only waste more of the
taxpayer’s money.
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