The Internet Service Providers' Association is a South African Internet industry body not for gain. ISPA currently has many members, comprised of large, medium and small Internet service and access providers in South Africa.
Formed in 1996, ISPA has historically served as an active industry body, facilitating exchange between the different independent Internet service providers, the Department of Communications, ICASA, operators and other service providers in South Africa.
Many entrepreneurs remain unaware of the risks that they could expose their businesses to by entrusting the registration of their website and email domains to the wrong person or organisation.
That’s according to Ant Brooks, ISPA General Manager. He said that many small business owners are not aware of the correct procedure to follow to register a domain, in whose name their company’s domain is registered, or even what it means to register a domain.
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The Internet Service Providers Association of South Africa (ISPA) congratulates Broadband Infraco (“Infraco”), the new State-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider, on the receipt of its individual-electronic communications network services (I-ECNS) licence from ICASA.
The award of this licence, together with the extensive fibre cable assets which Infraco inherited from Transnet and Eskom, places this new organisation in an excellent position to begin realising its mandate of broadening the availability of network services and lowering the cost of communications in South Africa.
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