Madam Deputy Speaker, although the DA, with the help of the opposition parties, has reached an agreement on the naming of the two candidates to the Icasa Board, the DA has concerns.
The DA states it clearly that the candidate nominated by the DA, Mr William Stucke, has the ability to spark or uplift Icasa's day-to-day business. The DA is concerned that Icasa is not doing business according to the law. Icasa has been criticised for continual delays in publishing regulations, drafting ill-thought-out and meaningless regulations, and its inability to keep qualified staff.
Secondly, why is Icasa taking so long to act on the high cost of interconnecting? Icasa needs a board that will ensure that those involved do what is expected of them. For example, Icasa has a database of frequency spectrum allocations, but it refuses permission to allow anyone to see it.
In the interviews of the Portfolio Committee on Communications with the candidates, it was stated that the database contained sensitive state information. However, military-assigned frequencies are more or less the same throughout the world, so there was no secret about that.
What are they really hiding? Why does Minister Siphiwe Nyanda not lower interconnecting fees using the policy directive that is given by the Electronic Communications Act which will effectively force Icasa to lower those fees?
Die onbeholpenheid van Okosa kan die inwerkingstelling na digitale televisie laat struikel. In 'n hofsaak wat op 15 September vanjaar aangehoor word, s e.tv dat die implimentering van Okosa se regulasies vir Suid-Afrika se digitale oorskakelingsplan gestaak moet word, omdat dit die bedryf te veel geld sal kos.
In die dringende interdikaansoek s e.tv die volgende, en ek haal aan: