{"id":42587,"date":"2012-02-01T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42587"},"modified":"2012-02-02T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T08:31:16","slug":"yet-another-spectrum-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/42587-yet-another-spectrum-delay.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another spectrum delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Communications, <a title=\"Dinah Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210235-Dina-Pule\">Dina Pule<\/a>, has issued a gazette to extend the date for public comment on the two policy directions that relate to two frequency bands to 29 February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This extension follows an announcement in early January that the deadline for public comment on its draft spectrum policy was moved from 13 January 2012 to 31 January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe frequency bands that are open for public comment are the 2.6GHz Band and 800MHz band, also known as the High Demand and Digital Dividend, respectively,\u201d the <a title=\"Department of Communications (DOC)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289205-DoC-Department-of-Communications\">communications department<\/a> pointed out in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum in the 2.6 GHz and 800MHz bands is seen as crucial to roll out LTE services to businesses and consumers in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Until the DoC\u2019s policy is finalised, 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> can\u2019t proceed with its plans to license high-demand spectrum in the 800MHz and 2600MHz bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minister of communications has again extended the date for public comment on frequency spectrum policy directions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,237,6002,1023,533],"class_list":["post-42587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-department-of-communications","tag-dina-pule","tag-doc","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587"}],"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=42587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42589,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions\/42589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}