lca.org.ls Applying For Licence Lesotho : Communications Authority

Organization : Lesotho Communications Authority
Type of Facility : Applying For Licence
Country: Lesotho

Website : https://www.lca.org.ls/

Applying For Licence :

The applicant is required to submit the following:
** Ownership, company profile, listing all directors, their addresses and their equity holdings, as well as certified copies of passports of the directors.

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** Contact details
** Business plan
** Description of service to be provided
** Network configuration details (where applicable)
** Proposed management structure
** Curriculum vitae for key personnel

** System capacity, the breakdown of initial capital investment, level of charges and estimated annual revenue and operating costs
** Sufficient documentary evidence to prove that the applicant has the financial capability to meet the capital investment required in the financial plan
** Previous experience in the establishment and operation of the service proposed

** Confirmation of compliance with the ITU-T recommendations and other specifications or standards, which are specifically relevant to the proposed service
** Applications can be submitted in person or by mail to LCA. Applications carry fees and these fees must be paid upon application.
** Licence application fees depend on the class of licence

Payment of licensing fees:
(1) The licensing fees are as set out in the Schedule.

(2) The fees are payable annually with an exception of:
(a) the application fee; and
(b) the initial licence fee.

(3) The fees shall be payable:
(a) on such date as the Authority may indicate; or
(b) in accordance with a payment schedule as may be agreed by the Authority and a licensee.

Public Communications Service Providers:
Individual licence issued for deployment of electronic communications networks, systems and facilities to offer communications switching and/or transmission capacity and/or services to existing licensed communications operators, business and /or consumers beyond a single premises.

This class comprises mobile communications systems (e.g. base stations, mobile switching centres, signal distribution networks) needed to offer public mobile phone, paging, trunked radio, mobile data services; and fixed communications services (e.g. exchanges, fibre, ducts, frontier stations, international gateways) to offer services like leased services, public local and international voice and data services.

This licence category also includes classes A and B of Internet Service Providers. The Internet Service Providers in class A. are authorised to source international internet bandwidth sell to ISPs and directly to customers either deploying their own infrastructure, or through infrastructure leased from third parties. ISPs in Class B are authorised to source international internet bandwidth and sell to ISPs only, either by deploying their own infrastructure or infrastructure leased from third parties.

Legal and Policy Matters :
These are :
Government Policy – The first major policy document which urshered-in the current communications landscape in Lesotho, is the Lesotho Telecommunications Policy of 1999. It was followed by the ICT Policy for Lesotho of 2005 and the Lesotho Communications Policy of 2008 which preceeded the promulgation of the new Communications Act 2012 whose commencement date is 27th April 2012 as per Legal Notice No. 58 of 2012.

The policy is effected through principal and subsidiary legislation. Principal legislation is adopted and promulgated at Parliamentary level through an Act of Parliament. Subsidiary legislation is made in the form of regulations and rules. Regulations are delegated legislation which is made by the Minister responsible for the administration of the Act while the rules can be made by the Authority as prescribed by the Act. All subsidiary legislation should be consistent with the principal legislation.

Contact Details:
Lesotho Communications Authority
6th Floor, Moposo House
PO Box 15896
Kingsway Road
Maseru 100.

Call: +266 2222 4300 / 5222 1300
Email : registrar AT lca.org.ls
Email : admin AT lca.org.ls