Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has asked Icasa to ensure that preferential access to spectrum is given to a new wholesale open-access network while opening the way for spectrum to be released to commercial operators.
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Communications regulator Icasa has issued an invitation to apply for a tender to help it value high-demand spectrum bands ahead of a planned assignment of the valuable radio frequencies.
Vodacom reported a 1.2% year-on-year decline in service revenue in South Africa in the three months to end-June, with the company blaming new data regulations from Icasa and a switch in roaming partners.
The department of communications & digital technologies was meant to publish the policy direction on the assignment of broadband spectrum in South Africa last Friday, but failed to do so.
Access to data will increase, and prices will fall, only if government gets out of the way and allows companies to have more spectrum and compete more freely. By Christo Hattingh.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has promised – like so many of her predecessors – to fast-track South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. Will this time be different?
Econet Media has placed its satellite broadcasting business into administration, Business Day reported.
The communications minister will issue a policy direction to Icasa within a month, allowing broadband spectrum to be allocated to mobile operators, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the nation address.
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MultiChoice, which owns DStv and SuperSport, has filed papers in the high court in Pretoria against communications regulator Icasa over its inquiry into sports broadcasting rights.