{"id":12100,"date":"2010-04-15T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:20:00","slug":"mobile-tv-progress-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/12100-mobile-tv-progress-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile TV progress in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first multiplex, an area of radio frequency spectrum used for digital terrestrial broadcasting, will be licensed during the financial year ending March 2011, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The other multiplex will be licensed as soon as Icasa decides on &nbsp;the opening of the pay TV market to new entities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of the current process, capacity in the first multiplex will be auctioned to the current broadcasters; and to ensure competition and diversity, no applicant shall be allowed to hold more than 60 percent of the multiplex with 20 percent as minimum,&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?226385-ICASA&amp;highlight=ICASA\"> Icasa<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?226439-Progress-for-mobile-TV-South-Africa&amp;p=3812853#post3812853\">Mobile TV progress in SA<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Discussion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Cellular\/9523.html\"><strong>MTN Mobile TV on its way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Telecoms\/7066.html\"><strong>Mobile TV delay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested parties have been given three weeks by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to submit applications for digital mobile television licences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}