{"id":14812,"date":"2010-08-30T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-30T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T17:10:00","slug":"sa-spectrum-allocation-revealed-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/14812-sa-spectrum-allocation-revealed-online.html","title":{"rendered":"SA spectrum allocation revealed online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/263441-Steve-Song\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Steve Song profile\">Steve Song<\/a>&rsquo;s Many Possibilities blog is well known for its excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/manypossibilities.net\/african-undersea-cables\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>undersea cable map and information page<\/strong><\/a>, and for interested readers Song has just added another very handy online tool to the site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Song&rsquo;s &ldquo;great libre spectropedia for glorious African spectrum transparency lobby&rdquo; page provides visitors with a comprehensive illustration of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/manypossibilities.net\/spectrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spectrum Allocation and Assignment in South Africa<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Song explained that he launched this project because the Excel spreadsheets made available by ICASA for spectrum allocation and assignment are not particularly user friendly, and there was a need for a more usable resource.<\/p>\n<p>Song then decided to develop a Spectrum Allocation and Assignment system as a public resource to make it easy to see exactly which spectrum has been assigned\/allocated by ICASA.<\/p>\n<p>Song however warns that despite the fact that the system is live and provides a fairly comprehensive overview of spectrum allocation in South Africa, not all the relevant information has not been included in the database yet.&nbsp; This will however happen soon.<\/p>\n<p>According to Song&rsquo;s website 2010 will not only see a survey of spectrum management in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, Brazil, and India, but also a targeted campaign for specific blocks of spectrum to be opened up.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/263433-South-Africa-s-spectrum-allocation-displayed-online\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SA spectrum allocation revealed online\">SA spectrum allocation revealed online<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Song\u2019s Many Possibilities blog graphically illustrates Spectrum Allocation and Assignment in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}