{"id":39501,"date":"2011-12-07T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T09:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39501"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T10:41:37","slug":"icasa-spectrum-framework-to-be-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/39501-icasa-spectrum-framework-to-be-unveiled.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA spectrum framework to be unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226385-ICASA\">Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)<\/a> announced today that it will present a framework for the licensing of high-demand spectrum for broadband (2.6GHz and 800MHz) on 8 December.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said that they are of the view that this regulatory process will go a long way in introducing innovative sharing mechanisms, and to allow as many new players as possible to have access to the 2.6GHz and 800MHz bands.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA added that this licensing process seeks to, amongst others, achieve the following national policy objectives:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Facilitate the introduction of new national and rural providers of electronic communications, including broadband;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that participating licensees contribute to broad-based black economic empowerment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cThe Authority will therefore publish an Invitation To Apply and the Spectrum Assignment Plan on Friday, 09 December 2011 for public comments by 24 January 2012; and the closing date for applications will be 23 March 2012,\u201d ICASA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA will unveil its framework for the licensing of high-demand spectrum for broadband on 8 December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25335,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,533],"class_list":["post-39501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39503,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39501\/revisions\/39503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}