{"id":38091,"date":"2013-05-19T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T07:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=38091"},"modified":"2013-05-20T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T07:13:37","slug":"icasa-in-r77-8m-licence-fee-dispute-with-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/38091\/icasa-in-r77-8m-licence-fee-dispute-with-vodacom\/","title":{"rendered":"Icasa in R77.8m licence fee dispute with Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa<\/a>)\u00a0is trying to settle a dispute over license fees with Vodacom<\/a> to avoid public embarrassment in court. This is according to a Sunday Times report.<\/p>\n

The newspaper reported that the watchdog is claiming that Vodacom owes it R77.8 million in unpaid license fees.<\/p>\n

Vodacom is fighting this claim, arguing that the regulator tried to change its mind over license fees, which is not acceptable.<\/p>\n

According to Vodacom spokesperson Richard Boorman<\/a> Icasa\u00a0revised its license fees in August 2010 to level the playing field between state owned companies (like Telkom) and private companies.<\/p>\n

At the last minute Icasa tried to delay this decision, potentially because it meant that Telkom would pay significantly higher fees, in line with what private companies had to pay.<\/p>\n

The new license fee regime meant that Vodacom saved R77.8 million. Icasa feels that Vodacom should still pay the higher fees, but Vodacom disputes this.<\/p>\n

Vodacom said that Icasa\u2019s last minute decision to delay the implementation of the new fee structure was unlawful.<\/p>\n

More on Icasa<\/h3>\n

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Icasa owed R500 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Accusations fly in iBurst, ICASA battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

iBurst wins court interdict against ICASA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

ICASA breaks silence on iBurst equipment seizure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

iBurst network outage update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bungling at the telecommunications regulator over a R77.8 million bill means its now looking to save face, says a newspaper report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,36,65,27],"class_list":["post-38091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-telkom","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38140,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38091\/revisions\/38140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}