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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
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 ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Nemisa Annual Performance Plan: briefing
14 Sep 2016
The National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA) briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan, with the main thrust devoted to developments surrounding the integration of NEMISA with the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications (ISSA), the E-Skills Institute and the Ikamva National e-Skills Institute.
At the outset, ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Broadband rollout: update with Minister, Deputy Minister, USAASA, SITA & NEMISA
13 Sep 2016
DTPS presented key points on the implementation of the broadband rollout, as well as the SA Connect initiative. Most important is the cumulative budget shortfall of R367 million from the current financial year to 2018/19, which means fewer sites can be reached. DTPS is engaging with National Treasury to increase ...
Home Affairs
State Information Technology Agency services to Home Affairs, with Deputy Minister
6 Sep 2016
A joint sitting of the Committees on Home Affairs and on Telecommunications and Postal Services were briefed by the Department of Home Affairs and the State Information Technology Agency.
The Department of Home Affairs said it was facing network connectivity issues. Its presentation spoke to the State Information Technology Agency's ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Spectrum: update by Minister, Department and ICASA
30 Aug 2016
The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services said it was a matter of public record that the Department had taken the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to court to review and interdict the decision to proceed with the auction of licences for high demand spectrum, and that therefore ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services on its 1st Quarter 2016/17 performance
23 Aug 2016
The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services provided the Committee with a broad overview of the Department’s recent performance. There had been progress and significant achievements, including development of a service delivery model that would form the basis of its organisational structure. SOEs were generally stabilising and although there were ...