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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
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
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 ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Telecommunications and Postal Services Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
20 Oct 2015
The Committee met briefly for the Adoption of the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR). The matters were reviewed swiftly with minimal dissent, approved and adopted by the Members.
Telecommunications and Postal Services
South African Post Office (SAPO) turnaround strategy: progress report
8 Sep 2015
The South African Post Office (SAPO) briefed the Committee on progress in respect of the implementation of its turnaround strategy.The Strategic Turnaround Plan (STP) initiatives had realised benefits on cost reduction but the lack of investment funding had been hampering the launch of revenue and rightsizing initiatives. The appointment of ...
Tourism
Domestic Tourism: National Department of Tourism briefing
20 Aug 2015
Domestic tourism covered travelling locally with the purpose of visiting friends and relatives or for religious, business, holiday and medical purposes. Members were given insight into two surveys done by SA Tourism and StatsSA on domestic tourism. The surveys differed in sample, scope, variables and the period of the surveys. ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) on its impact on all entities in terms of its ICT mandate
17 Aug 2015
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) briefed the Committee on its impact on all the entities in terms of its Information Communication and Technology (ICT) mandate.
ICASA had ensured that the South African Post Office (SAPO) received exclusive provision of basic mail services, with a 25-year licence. Price ...