by Toby Youell
South Africa's regulator, ICASA, has published its Information Memorandum (IM) for a long-awaited multiband auction. ICASA plans to award the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 2.3 GHz, 2.6 GHz, and 3.5 GHz bands. The IM includes various potential combinations of lots that could be used to award the band. The document… Read more...
by Toby Youell
South Africa's independent telecoms regulator, ICASA, is consulting on a draft roadmap for IMT (mobile broadband). ICASA has said that responses to the consultation will inform its future policies for the bands, including potential awards. The roadmap is intended to provide for greater mobile broadband coverage at lower prices. Read more...
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The South African government has issued a wide-ranging consultation on its general ICT strategy that aims to create a knowledge economy by 2030. It is the first wide-ranging review of ICT policy in the country since the mid-1990s. The document reiterates ICASA's support for technology-neutral licences and confirms its intention to reallocate spectrum for IMT following the… Read more...
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South Africa has issued its revised draft spectrum regulations to a public consultation. The revisions address "anomalies" that the regulator, ICASA, found in the draft regulations from 2011. The draft rules established the regulatory framework for assigning spectrum licences in South Africa. The processes described in the regulations are designed to be… Read more...
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The South African regulator has launched a consultation on its draft radio frequency spectrum assignment plan (RFSAP), which seeks to specify the technical conditions on the use of IMT spectrum bands. It is asking for views from stakeholders on the rules for services operating in each of the bands. The draft RFSAP was… Read more...
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The South African regulator has issued a discussion paper about Dynamic Spectrum Access to a public consultation. The discussion paper advocates several measures that would build a regulatory framework to enable DSA, particularly in TV White Spaces between 470 MHz and 694 MHz on a secondary basis. Read more...
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The South African spectrum regulator has issued a consultation on its proposed regulatory framework for the V-band (57 - 66 GHz) and the E-band (71 - 76 GHz + 81 - 86 GHz). ICASA says it plans to allow access to these bands on a licence-exempt basis where feasible, and… Read more...
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South Africa's Department of Communications has launched a consultation on two draft policy directions. The policy directions direct the telecoms regulator, ICASA, to: fast track the finalisation of the methodology for spectrum and eligibility criteria in the 2500 -2690 (2.6 GHz) bandconsider the scope of the action to be taken… Read more...