In this special edition of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to three top industry experts, Steve Song, Kerron Edmunson and Mortimer Hope, to unpack Icasa’s invitations to apply for spectrum and the Woan licence.
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Communications regulator Icasa has published an invitation to apply for parties interested in investing in South Africa’s planned wholesale open-access network, or Woan. These are the details.
Battles unfolding on several continents over who profits from connected cars, smart homes and robotic surgery may dwarf the size and scope of the tech industry’s first worldwide patent war – the one over smartphones.
South Africans were cheered this week with three announcements many thought would never come: arrests in relation to state corruption and plans to sell vacant farmland and new Internet spectrum.
Communications regulator Icasa will finally invite mobile operators to apply to bid for spectrum for 4G and 5G networks from 2 October, with the country’s first-ever auctions expected to take place by March.
Operators will no longer have to hand back temporary spectrum assignments, awarded to them under the Covid-19 state of disaster regulations, until the spectrum auction is held in March 2021.
Remgro, the largest shareholder in CIVH – the parent company of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa – has attached a R19.3-billion valuation to the telecoms infrastructure holding company.
Communications regulator Icasa will this week publish the long-awaited invitation to apply (ITA) for so-called high-demand spectrum in the Government Gazette. Here’s what to expect.
Mobile World Congress, a series of events organised around the world by the mobile industry association the GSMA, is coming to Africa for the first time next year.
US President Donald Trump’s administration is maintaining pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to exclude Huawei from Germany’s 5G networks.