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Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)

ICASA

Notice regarding Termination of the Information and Communications Technology ("ICT") COVID-19 National Disaster Regulations, 2021

Schedule

 

Regulation

Subject

Applicable Termination Date  and/or Due Date

4(5) & (6)

Advertising licence conditions & Local television content quotas relaxation

 

4 July 2022

4(7) & (8)

Programme syndication relaxation

 

13 April 2022

4(13) & (14)

Suspension of the requirement to submit hardcopies of applications

 

26 April 2022

4(15) & (16)

Suspension of the 60-day period for ICASA to notify the applicant of the outcome of the pre-registration

 

26 April 2022

4(19)

Duration of a special event community broadcasting service and radio frequency spectrum licence for the purpose of providing COVID- 19 related programming

 

4 May 2022

4(20), (21) & (22)

Television Broadcasting Services to Persons with Disabilities

 

7 April 2022

5 (10)

Duration of Type Approvals made in line with the Regulations

 

4 July 2022

5 (11)

Decommissioning of Type Approved equipment operating in the provisional radio frequency spectrum

 

30 September 2022

6 (1)

Duration of the temporary radio frequency spectrum licences issued in April 2020

 

30 November 2021

6(3) & (4)

Duration of provisional radio frequency spectrum licences & the return of provisional radio frequency spectrum to ICASA

 

30 June 2022

6 (19)

Duration of spectrum sharing agreements

 

30 June 2022

6 (21)

Maintenance of network connectivity for the virtual classrooms platforms by licensees that were assigned with temporary radio frequency spectrum in April 2020

 

Seventeen (17) months after deployment of the connectivity solution

6 (23)

Maintenance of network connectivity for the schools by licensees that are assigned with provisional spectrum

 

Twelve (12) months from the date determined by ICASA

Any other provision not listed above

 


4 April 2022