How much is enough?

“People most probably want to get to have as much [WiMax spectrum] as they can in order for others not to have [any WiMax spectrum],” said Mashile.

He said that if the business model proved that 20MHz was indeed not enough then two organisations, each with 20MHz of spectrum, can join forces to provide them with 40MHz.
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No surprise that Paris Mashile wants to create an environment where the number of competitors is minimised instead of optimised.

By forcing companies to band together to provide WiMax services with 40MHz or more [2 or more companies with WiMax spectrum & licenses], not only will the number of potential WiMax competitors be reduced, but WiMax spectrum will also be monopolised by a few instead of optimally shared amongst many more, the technology requires 30MHz to keep deployment costs down and to provide reasonable speeds - it is that simple, however Paris Mashile seems incapable of grasping even the simplest of concepts.

Besides that, why is it that Telkodemonopolies and Neotel have been allocated upwards of 50MHz of WiMax spectrum? - presumably Sentech as well...

Surely Telkodemonopolies and Neotel and Sentech should only be allowed to have 20MHz of spectrum each - just like every other company that !CASA decides to allocate WiMax spectrum to...
 
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eltherza said:
They are partly owned by the government?
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More than likely the reason, although my point is that if !CASA is going to allocate 20MHz per company, then !CASA needs to take away 36MHz of spectrum from both Telkodemonopolies and Neotel, and then there is Sentech which appears to have even more WiMax spectrum that it isn't using - Googled & found the following MBB news article from November 2006:
Telkom, Neotel and Sentech have already been allocated 3.5 GHz spectrum, with Telkom and Neotel receiving 2 x 28 MHz each and Sentech receiving 2 x 14 MHz. A total of 60 MHz is now available for further assignment.

In the 2.6 GHz band Sentech has an assignment of 50 MHz and WBS/iBurst has been allocated 14 MHz. This leaves a total of 126 MHz spectrum available for further distribution.
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So, Telkodemonopolies and Neotel each have 56MHz of Wimax spectrum, while Sentech actually has 78MHz of WiMax spectrum that it isn't going to be using any time soon, and then there is WBS with 14MHz of WiMax spectrum...
 
Gosh ICASa sucks.. And the minister is just making more !@$!@#@T^@#!
 
Yes, because Mashile knows better than every other telecomms expert in the world.
 
The ICASA chairman would, however, not commit to taking spectrum away from Sentech as government was still planning for it to become the national wireless broadband provider as envisaged by communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
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Anything envisaged by our wonderful minister of miscommunication is bound to go badly. :(
 
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