Editing Local-loop unbundling (section)

===South Africa===
On 25 May 2006, the Minister of Communications of South Africa, [[Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri]], established the Local Loop Unbundling Committee (chaired by Professor [[Tshilidzi Marwala]]) to recommend the appropriate local loop unbundling models. The Local Loop Unbundling Committee submitted a report to Minister Matsepe-Casaburri on 25 May 2007. The report recommended that:

* Models that permit customers to access both voice and data should be offered by many different companies; the models recommended were full unbundling, line sharing, and bitstream access
* Customers should exercise carrier pre-selection and thus be able to switch between service providers
* An organisation be created to manage the local loop and that this organisation should be under the guidance of the regulatory organizagtion [[Icasa|ICASA]] and that ICASA be capacitated in terms of resources
* Service providers approved by ICASA should have access to telephone exchange infrastructure whenever necessary 
* A regulatory guideline should be established and managed by ICASA to guarantee that strategic issues like the quality of the local loop be optimised for the regulation and delivery of services

Based on this report, the Minister issued policy directives to ICASA to undergo the unbundling process.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.doc.gov.za/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=47 |title=Local Loop Unbundling: A Way Forward for South Africa |format=PDF |work=The Local Loop Unbundling Committee |date=May 23, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-15}}</ref> At the end of March 2010, nothing had occurred; however, a deadline of 1 November 2011 was set by the Minister of Communications for the monopoly holder, [[Telkom SA]], to finalise the unbundling process.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}