WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

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EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920 Work Package: 6 Type of document: Report Date: 20.12.2007 File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0 Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 208 / 356 2. ICASA is requested to grant permission to the Metros and Municipalities to continue providing services to their former electricity departments in the RED after RED establishment. 3. A multi party telecoms service provision model is preferred, whereby any division in the RED would be able to obtain telecoms services from any legal telecoms service provider, even if such a provider is not its former owner. 4. SLAs (Service Level Agreement) and tariffs should be negotiated to ensure cost based / market related tariffs and adequate quality of service. 5. Eskom Enterprises and the Metros/Municipalities should be offered the first opportunity to investigate and quote the REDs for projects to provide new telecoms services and/or services in currently under-serviced areas to meet the REDs’ requirements. Areas that are under serviced generally fall in the boundaries of the smaller municipalities (such as Cape Town UniCity, Ekurhuleni Metro, Nelson Mandela Metro, Johannesburg Metro, eThekwini Metro and Tshwane Metro). This offers an opportunity to provide telecommunications services in these areas using PLC technology. As the incumbent telecommunications operator failed to provide in these areas in terms of their license requirement, Government can use this opportunity to make good the promise made to the people. [A06] On the services side, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) has published the long-awaited licence conversion framework, which allows telecommunications and broadcasting providers to broaden the scope of their service offerings. Now, operators can use their networks for whatever services they want to. It means SA's licensing framework no longer has a distinction between fixed and mobile licensed entities. A fixed- line operator like Telkom may enter into the mobile market, while a mobile operator like MTN may choose to extend its services into the fixed-line market if it chooses to. Additionally, there are no limitations as to what services telecoms operators may provide using their network. Licensees can provide telecoms or broadcasting services, and they can choose to
EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920 Work Package: 6 Type of document: Report Date: 20.12.2007 File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0 Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 209 / 356 bundle their services or not, depending on their business model. The only key distinction under the new framework is between individual and class licences, where the latter has a limited geographic scope. As previously, applications are subject to spectrum allocation. Value-added network service (VANS) providers now have an option of applying for an individual licence, which would give them the same rights and privileges enjoyed by the big fixed-line and mobile telecoms operators. VANS will only need class licences to build their own networks and sell spare capacity. Depending on how many VANS take advantage of the opportunity to build their own networks, and how much capacity they spare, the new licensing framework could bring about options for VANS for national, regional and metropolitan bandwidth. The dissolution of Telkom's fixed line monopoly, will create new service providers, such as SNO, licensed in December 2005 and officially launched as Neotel in August 2006. [A06] The Icasa Act amendments and the EC Act redefine and expand the powers of Icasa to control the communications market. Icasa's key functions include regulating players in the communications sector, issuing operating licences to service providers, managing the frequency spectrum in South Africa and protecting consumers against unfair business practices. Most significantly, Icasa has now been given power to dictate price controls, terms and conditions of access, interconnection and facilities leasing. The mobile services market, with a CAGR of 9%, is forecast to grow faster than the fixed line and fixed wireless market which has a CAGR of 5%. In the mobile services market, voice remains bread and butter of the mobile market but mobile data services will be the industry’s growth powerhouse over the forecast period, which has a CAGR of 29% driven by multimedia content and data access for PCs and laptops. 5.4.2.3.2 The situation of the fiber optics [A07] Before markets were liberalised, telephone companies were in the main government- owned institutions. When they wanted to build undersea cables, governments financed this activity and the project was carried out by the government-owned telephone company. Liberalisation has opened the market to new competitors at both an international and
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