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Telecommunications and Postal Services
International Telecommunications Regulations, World Radio Communications Conference Final Acts, with Minister; Committee Report on Cost to Communicate
15 Nov 2016
Ratification of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR)
The Minister, Mr Cwele, said it was important that South Africa ratified the regulations because the old regulations were outdated and affected the interoperability of mobile telephony which had increased dramatically since 1988 and to increase the transparency on pricing which needed to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Special Investigating Unit investigations in Telecommunications and Postal Services, with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2016
The Chairperson noted the lack of updates on the progress of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigations affected the Committee’s ability to do its oversight work. The Deputy Minister added that the Department could not follow up matters contained in SIU reports to the President, because the report belonged to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Telecommunications and Postal Services Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
25 Oct 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Acting Chairperson of the Committee presented the Committee’s draft Budget Review and Recommendations Report on the Department’s 2015/16 annual report for consideration. Members corrected various typographical, grammar and style errors. The report was adopted as amended.
The Committee then received a ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
ZADNA on its 2015/16 Annual Report
20 Oct 2016
Ms D Tsotetsi (ANC) was nominated as the Acting Chairperson.
ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) presented its Annual Report for 2015/16 to the Committee, taking the Members through the main highlights of that report. The first section explained the meetings that had been held by the Authority. ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Sentech, USAASA, USAF & NEMISA on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
18 Oct 2016
Sentech had received a clean audit, was sustainable, generating cash and growing its asset base even though market conditions for the year under review had been difficult to navigate. In the medium to long term, it was running two networks and needed to refresh the analogue network ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SA Post Office on its 2015/16 Annual Report
14 Oct 2016
The South African Postal Service briefed the Committee on their Annual Report for the financial year 2016.
The presentation stressed that financial year 2016 was a very challenging one for the Post Office, with the organisation experiencing considerable losses. Much of the net losses were a direct result of interest ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SITA & Broadband Infraco on 2015/16 Annual Report
13 Oct 2016
State Information Technology Agency (Proprietary) Limited Annual Report
The Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services met with the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Broadband Infraco (BBI) for the presentation of their annual reports.
SITA said that changes had been made in its macro organisational structure to ensure ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
DTPS on its 2015/16 Annual Report with Auditor General input, with Minister and Deputy Minister in attendance
11 Oct 2016
The Office of the Auditor General said the audit outcomes for the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) and its entities had been stagnant for 2015/16, and the number of compliance findings had increased. Key positions remained vacant or suspended and a significant number of senior positions were being ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Cost to Communicate: public hearings day 2
21 Sep 2016
The Portfolio Committee met with relevant role players for a second day to discuss the cost to communicate. Network providers in their submissions and explained how their business operations and costs were affecting their tariffs and pricing structures. NGOs such as the Right to Know Campaign provided ideas as alternatives ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Cost to Communicate: public hearings day 1
20 Sep 2016
The Telecommunications and Postal Services Portfolio Committee received a wide range of inputs on the impact of the cost of internet access from six organisations, all of which stressed the benefits which would accrue from paying less for voice and data services.
Officials from the Department of Telecommunications and Postal ...