STAATSKOERANT, 24 JANUARIE 2014
No. 37261
Communication Workers Union
Digital Audio Broadcasting
Department of Arts and Culture
Department of Basic Education
Digital European Cordless Telephony
Department of Higher Education and Training
Department of Communications
Department of Labour
Department of Public Service and Administration
Department of Posts and Telecommunications
Digital Visual Broadcasting
DTH
Direct to home
DTI
Department of Trade and Industry
DTT
Digital Terrestrial Television
Deregulation
When a highly regulated broadcasting environment is reassessed
and a number of rules and regulations are reduced, making it easier
for interest groups other than the state to participate, own and control
a broadcasting station.
Duopoly
A special type of Oligopoly. It is a market in which there are two
producers of a commodity competing with each other
DVB-T
Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial
ECD
Early Childhood Development
ECNS
Electronic Communications Network Service
Economies of scale Occurs when a single producer can supply the entire market at an
average total cost of productions that is lower than what can be
achieved by two or more firms; e.g. Eskom, Telkom
Economies of scope Occur when there is a decrease in average total cost made possible
by increasing the number of different goods produced
ECS
Electronic Communications Service
ECTA
Electronic Communication & Transactions Act of 2002
EDI
Electronic Data Interchange - transfer of data from one system to
another
EIF
Electronics Industry Federation
CWU
DAB
DAC
DBE
DECT
DHET
DoC
DoL
DPSA
DPT
DVB
Electronic
Communication
Encryption
Communication made by means of a data message
A mechanism for changing the broadcast signal in a systematic way
so that the picture would be unintelligible without a suitable decoder.
The procedure is highly mathematical and very secure. Encryption
usually infers a higher degree of security than "scrambling", which is
a simple rearrangement of parts of the signal according to some
simple formula and it's therefore less secure.
EE
Employment Equity
e-Skills Institute
e-SI
ETQA
Education and Training Quality Assurance
FCC
Federal Communications Commission (USA-based)
FET
Further Education and Training (Colleges)
Fleetcall
Private company- one of two licensed to provide national radio
trunking in South Africa
FILM
Film Industry Learner Mentorship
Fixed Line Operator Fixed line operator "means Telkom and any other company that
provides a licensed telecommunication service by means of a
telecommunication system consisting mainly of fixed lines.
FM
Frequency modulation
Foot Print
The area of the earth's surface in which a particular satellite signal
can be received.
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