ARLA/CLUSTER: Regulador da África do Sul (ICASA) vai disponibilizar um novo sistema automático de licenciamento

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

ICASA new automatic licencing system soon

SARL President, Nico van Rensburg, ZS6QL and SARL Regulatory Affairs
Manager, Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV met with the ICASA CEO
Willington Ngwepe and some of his senior staff to discuss several long
outstanding issues that could not be resolved by the liaison committee

Ngwepe told the SARL that ICASA was currently piloting a new spectrum
management system which will solve the current disconnect between
licenses and payments creating the impression that licenses have been
cancelled. The SARL was assured that call signs were not cancelled on
the system, although the SARL database may show licenses cancelled.
ICASA will supply the SARL with a full database where call signs that
have a payment dispute will be identified by an asterisk. The SARL
will implement the revised database in the SARL callbook early next
month.

Once the new ICASA system is released later this year, applications,
address changes, payments and renewals will be done on-line. The
problem with commission being charged for payments made at the Post
Office will be corrected. If you received an outstanding account for
R12.50, please ignore this as ICASA will credit your account. For any
current license payment queries, please send an e-mail to Dewald at
dkuhrau  icasa.org.za with a copy of the EFT payment and call sign.

The CEO also agreed to revisit the SARL application for special call
signs for amateurs who participate in international contests. He also
confirmed that the dispute with DTPS and ICASA has been resolved and
that the new radio frequency spectrum plan will be gazetted soon.

Other regulatory issues that have been on the liaison committee agenda
for some time will be referred to the various departments for speedy
resolution. "I believe that our meeting was fruitful for both ICASA
and the SARL", Nico van Rensburg said. "It gave us the opportunity to
discuss how the SARL operates, the benefits that Hamnet delivers to
the country and the technology such as propagation research,
investigation into the rising RF noise floor and satellite technology
that radio amateurs and the amateur service are involved with."

Source: SARL News
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