Broadband spectrum licensing postponed until further notice

minister has to issue her spectrum policy directions first for ICASA’s regulatory process to proceed sensibly.
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So ICASA not entirely to blame for once? How possibly soon can we get this policy direction given the rate we are changing ministers of telecommunications?
 
Why do I always read the words "ICASA" and "postpone" in the same sentence?
:wtf: :mad:
 
Instead of getting aggravated with ICASA, we should use their strengths in our favour.. We need to find a way to assign them the responsibility to carry out all the things we DON'T want to happen...
 
Too bad this high demand spectrum doesn't lie in the porn band, Icasa would have been over it like a bitch in heat.
 
ICASA and Spectrum

siraman said:
So ICASA not entirely to blame for once? How possibly soon can we get this policy direction given the rate we are changing ministers of telecommunications?
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Its amazing that when the monopoly players start crying because they wont be in the running for this spectrum which is quite fair as they will just sit on it till existing 3G is paid for! ICASA is pushed on to the back foot and put everything on hold! Like a horse being lead to water and made drink.

This is so bad for this countries progress to deliver service to all!

We can not continue to be a country driven by monopolies!!!
 
All spectrum below 10 GHz is affected

SteveO said:
2600 and 800Mhz
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It affects all Spectrum below 10 GHz and this intern affects the whole ISP industry, while Fiber is so expensive, wireless is the only way to drive down costs and increase data speed.

People are sick of the cellular data speeds and the ridiculous price you pay to go slow, but the cellular companies don't care about the client! all they care about is the bottom line.

All i can say is stop forcing us to live with 3rd world infrastructure and let us get on with developing our countries data needs!!!!
 
siraman said:
Which one is for LTE out of the 2 or which one is best for LTE Deployments?
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800 is better for rural deployment and 2.6 better for LTE.

If I had a company with spectrum, let's say 2.5 and I was already busy with testing LTE on that spectrum, would I oppose the other operators from gaining access to LTE spectrum...? Would I also say that everyone should wait and <insert your own weak excuse here> before everyone else gets it....?

hhhmmm, o, wait, according to the public documents available to anyone, Telkom has got the LTE 2.5 spectrum already....
 
HDC said:
800 is better for rural deployment and 2.6 better for LTE.

If I had a company with spectrum, let's say 2.5 and I was already busy with testing LTE on that spectrum, would I oppose the other operators from gaining access to LTE spectrum...? Would I also say that everyone should wait and <insert your own weak excuse here> before everyone else gets it....?

hhhmmm, o, wait, according to the public documents available to anyone, Telkom has got the LTE 2.5 spectrum already....
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Thanx HDC,but excuse my ignorance on this topic, you say 800 is better for rural but when i looked up this spectrum thing(ok,graphical illustration) they say 800GHZ is more suited in penetrating dense objects i.e.Concrete buildings hence my understanding of it's suitability in the "concrete jungle" whereas 2GHZ-5GHZ is the opposite hence suited for vast rural areas.What am I missing?
 
siraman said:
Thanx HDC,but excuse my ignorance on this topic, you say 800 is better for rural but when i looked up this spectrum thing(ok,graphical illustration) they say 800GHZ is more suited in penetrating dense objects i.e.Concrete buildings hence my understanding of it's suitability in the "concrete jungle" whereas 2GHZ-5GHZ is the opposite hence suited for vast rural areas.What am I missing?
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Ideally in an urban environment you don't want the cell reach to be too far as it will cause interference with the next tower if they are too close. Each radio can support x amount of bandwidth, more towers closer together gives you more bandwidth per user and less chance of large dead spots.

Rural due to the lower density of people and buildings means less customers per geographic area therefore each radio needs to cover a larger area to get the same revenue from users (to cover the same number of customers) therefore is a better option.

To go to the extreme if you had only one LTE radio in a stadium for 100 000 people and it could do 100Mbps each person would only get 0.001Mbps (very basic I know I am making hugs assumptions) - if you reduced the power (or used directional radios) and had 10 units each person would get 0.01Mbps average speed if you could ensure they did not interfere withe each other.
 
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