Community Broadcasting Stations​ and Electronic Communications Service Providers

So many Community Broadcasting Station and Electronic Communications Service Providers are non-compliant with one or all there licence terms and conditions. ICASA has in recent years refferred all non-compliant matters to the Complaints, Complicance Committee (CCC). The-Complaints-and-Compliance-Committee.pdf.  Your non-complianed days are over, thanks to Rubico, we are here to assist Community Braodcasting Stations and Serivce Providers to become complianed with its licence terms and conditions and their Regulatry obligations as set out in the Compliance Procedure Manual Regulations. Our highly trained consultant Veronica Barnard a former ICASA Compliance officer with over ten(10) yeras complaince experiance is here to assist you. More about Veronica in our about us page.

Our first step to assist:                                                          

We will do a full compliance assessment and analyse of the broadcasting station. We will provide a full comprehensive report outlying all the compliance and non-compliance with recommendations.

 

 

We will assist with the overview of Compliance Obligations for licensees:

• Payment obligations
• Ad-hoc filing obligations

What the service covers

Provision of assistance with submissions and required payments to ICASA including submissions relating to:

• Annual Licence Fees
• Universal Service and Access Fund (USAF) Contributions
• Compliance with Standard Terms and Conditions Regulations, including submission of sectoral planning information on a quarterly basis
• Compliance with E-Rate Regulations
• Compliance with Disability Regulations
• Compliance with the Code of Conduct Regulations
• Compliance with the quality of service provisions of the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter Regulations
• Register of Complaints
• Tariff Reporting
• Provision of assistance with ad hoc compliance requests from ICASA
• Provision of information relating to regulatory processes in progress
• Email and telephonic support regarding compliance issues
• Updates and notifications relating to compliance issues.

Due to the moratorium placed on new community radio broadcasting licenses the following services are suspended:

• New Applications, and
• New Registrations

Additional Governance, Risk and Compliance Services offered:

• Complaints and Compliance Committee arbitration legal opinions;
• Representation at the Complaints and Compliance Committee arbitration;
• Renewal Applications;
• Registration Applications;
• Amendment Applications;
• Internal Policy Writing;
• Governance Assessment;
• Risk Assessment; and
• Governance, Risk and Compliance Matrix development.

 

Provision of general compliance advice on obligations not flowing directly from the holding of service licences issued under Chapter 3 of the ECA, including:

• Competition laws;
• Consumer protection law such as the National Credit Act and the Consumer Protection Act;
• Related legislation such as the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act (RICA) and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (ECT Act);
• Non-statutory compliance with codes of conduct such as the BCCSA, ISPA, WAPA or DMASA Codes of Conduct; and
• Compliance Training.