{"id":4503,"date":"2012-01-25T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2012-01-25T23:06:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:06:57","slug":"telkom-fixed-line-monopoly-wont-be-protected-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/4503\/telkom-fixed-line-monopoly-wont-be-protected-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom fixed line monopoly won\u2019t be protected: DoC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Communications (DoC) is cautious about commenting on whether they are concerned about Telkom<\/a>\u2019s profits in the light of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa<\/a>\u2019s (ICASA) plans for local loop unbundling (LLU).<\/p>\n

Government owns 50% of Telkom\u2019s shares, and in November last year (2011) ICASA published its findings after conducting a round of public hearings on LLU.<\/p>\n

In these findings, ICASA said that from the middle of 2012 it would conduct a regulatory impact assessment (RIA) of the cost and benefits of the various LLU models.<\/p>\n

Minister of Communications, Dina Pule<\/a>, said that they are wary to address the issues around Telkom and its monopoly until they receive the outcome of the RIA from ICASA.<\/p>\n

However, the DoC will not protect Telkom\u2019s monopoly, deputy director-general Themba Phiri<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

According to Phiri, when the state issued the LLU policy directive, it was showing its intention to promote a pro-competitive market.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Communications is wary to comment on Telkom profits in the wake of local loop unbundling, but says it won\u2019t protect the incumbent\u2019s monopoly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1087,1083,26,36,1089,1085],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-department-of-communications","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-llu","tag-themba-phiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}