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:''"Icasa" redirects here. For the Brazilian association football club, see Associação Desportiva Recreativa e Cultural Icasa'' The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is an independent regulatory body of the South African government, established in 2000 by the (ICASA Act ) to regulate both the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors in the public interest. Traditionally, telecommunications and broadcasting services operated separately and so has the regulation of the sectors. Broadcasting in South Africa was regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), whereas telecommunications was regulated by the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA). Rapid technological developments have led to the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications services. This also had an influence on the convergence of regulation resulting in the merging of the IBA and SATRA. ICASA functions under the (Department of Communications (DoC) ). It was initially composed of seven Council members. The (ICASA amendment Act of 2006 ) included the Postal services, previously regulated by the Postal Authority into ICASA’s mandate. It increased the Council members from seven to nine to accommodate the new members from the Postal Authority. ==Mandate and purpose== ICASA’s mandate is to regulate electronic communications (i.e. broadcasting and telecommunications) and postal services in the public interest. It derives its mandate from the following primary pieces of legislation (and subsequent amendments thereto): * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Independent Communications Authority of South Africa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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