Shortly after my post revealing that RSAWeb (among others) provide hosting for known South African spammers, I got an email from their Technical Director, Mark Slingsby, asking how recent my lookups were1, and requesting me to name the offenders2 so that his sysadmin team can follow up. I replied with a detailed response, noting that [...]
Tagged fail, ispa, RSAWeb, spammersThis morning I read this article on MyBroadband about the ISPA “hall of shame” list of South African spammers, and conducted a quick (somewhat non-scientific) investigation to see where the mail servers for the domains provided on the ISPA list are hosted. After filtering out domains without MX records, MX records without valid A records, [...]
Tagged hosting, ispa, spammersBroadband Infraco was issued an I-ECNS license, but refused an I-ECS license, meaning they’re permitted to provide wholesale, but not retail services. Dominic Cull commented on an earlier post of mine: The whole IECS debate now seems pretty irrelevant given that the Minister of Comms has decided they will not get one .. To allow [...]
Tagged broadband infaco, doc, DPE, telkomAccording to the Broadband Infraco act, the new state-owned-enterprise is supposed to be issued both IECS and IECNS licenses (what I like to call the happy-meal license combo), enabling them to provide retail and wholesale services, respectively. The act mandates Infraco to drastically lower the price of national backbone bandwidth. It seems I was overly [...]
Tagged ICASA, infraco, ispaI compiled my initial list of local ASNs when I started this blog in October last year. Since then we’ve had Altech’s self-provisioning court victory which lead to the potential for many new telecoms operators to compete with the likes of Telkom and Neotel. Since I’ve just updated the table using a fresh copy of [...]
Tagged bgp, fnbconnect, licensing, new-kids, sadv, smmtThe issue of Broadband Infraco getting a license has been dragging on since 2007. In a nutshell, this would enable them to provide services directly to the industry as opposed to just being a sub-contractor for Neotel. Finally this saga is nearing it’s conclusion, as Infraco has to submit it’s application to ICASA by 20 [...]
Tagged DPE, ICASA, infraco, neotel, telkomAs if they haven’t caused enough problems already, the DOC plans to help our friends in Zimbabwe fly their communications sector into a hillside too! The Department of Communications (DOC) says SA will use its position as the chair of SADC to drive ICT issues in the region, in particular Zimbabwe. “Our ICT intellectual affairs [...]
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