{"id":551941,"date":"2007-04-04T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551941-icasa-concludes-hearings-into-spectrum-allocation.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:33:23","slug":"icasa-concludes-hearings-into-spectrum-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551941-icasa-concludes-hearings-into-spectrum-allocation.html","title":{"rendered":"Icasa concludes hearings into spectrum allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Chairperson of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), Paris Mashile said at the close of three day public hearings that the spectrum should be conceived as the coal which can set ablaze the ICT sector and bring the greatest benefit to the majority of the population. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The hearings were in respect of the Electronic Communications Act of 2005. The Act compels ICASA to prescribe a methodology for the assignment of radio frequency spectrum licences in instances where there exists competing applicants for access to the identical frequency spectrum, and in instances where there is spectrum scarcity relative to the demand for such spectrum. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The authority has identified two bands where demand exceeds the available bandwidth and these are the 3400-3600 MHz (3.5GHz) and 2500-2690 MHz (2.6GHz).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The 3.5GHz band has been subdivided in terms of the International Telecommunications Union -ITU-R F1488 and the duplex spacing is 100 MHz. Three operators have been licenced in this bandwidth i.e. Sentech and Telkom and Neotel. These assignments leave a total of 60 MHz available for further assignments.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Currently there are two licensees with access to the 2.6GHz bandwidth and they are Sentech and WBS. This leaves a total of 126 MHz available for further assignments.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=71243\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icasa has concluded their hearings into the allocation of spectrum, notably 3.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551941"}],"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=551941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}