{"id":75081,"date":"2013-04-09T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=75081"},"modified":"2013-04-10T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:06:55","slug":"sentech-to-give-back-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/75081-sentech-to-give-back-spectrum.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentech to give back spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sentech<\/a> will return its 2.6GHz and 3.5GHz spectrum to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This is according to CEO of the state-owned signal distributor, Setumo Mohapi<\/a>, who was addressing press at an event in Roodepoort today (9 April 2013).<\/p>\n

Mohapi explained that they came to the decision after much consideration on how Sentech should be involved in the national broadband network plans of the Department of Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When considering the matter, Mohapi said that Sentech concluded that the ecosystem in South Africa has changed in a fundamental way.<\/p>\n

The fact that the cost of spectrum had grown tenfold was also a big consideration in returning the spectrum to the regulator \u2013\u00a0ICASA.<\/p>\n

Industry analysts and players alike have long called for this spectrum that was assigned to Sentech to be taken away.<\/p>\n

It is understood that this move will help simplify ICASA\u2019s task of later assigning the 2.6GHz band so that it would be possible to roll out Long Term Evolution<\/a> in its most popular configuration for that band (frequency division duplex, or FDD).<\/p>\n

More Sentech and mobile broadband news<\/h3>\n

Digital TV network on track: Sentech<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New SA broadband policy: more talking about talking<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The cold, hard truth about broadband in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After consideration, Sentech has decided to return to ICASA its spectrum suitable for mobile broadband<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":75077,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,18116,251,2760,4472],"class_list":["post-75081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-radio-frequency-spectrum","tag-sentech","tag-setumo-mohapi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75083,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75081\/revisions\/75083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}