{"id":83771,"date":"2013-08-10T00:22:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=83771"},"modified":"2013-08-10T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T22:24:07","slug":"icasa-warns-wireless-internet-service-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/83771-icasa-warns-wireless-internet-service-providers.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA warns wireless Internet service providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (<a title=\"ICASA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226385-ICASA\">ICASA<\/a>) has warned wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to not illegally use the 4GHz band.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said that the 4GHz band is used by the South African Air Force, and the warning was issued after Icasa received complaints about interference in this band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone found to be in possession or operating such equipment outside the licence free band and is not a holder of a radio spectrum licence, will result in the apparatus being seized and dealt with according to law,\u201d ICASA said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year ICASA confiscated uncertified handsets which caused interference with licensed services.<\/p>\n<p>According to ICASA, interference by illegal handsets affects between 100,000 to 200,000 subscribers daily, resulting in poor Internet speeds and cellular reception issues.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More ICASA articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"ICASA crackdown: beware the wrong cordless phones\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/72616-icasa-crackdown-beware-the-wrong-cordless-phones.html\"><strong>ICASA crackdown: beware the wrong cordless phones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paying ICASA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/71054-paying-icasa.html\"><strong>Paying ICASA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has warned wireless Internet service providers not to illegally use the 4 GHz band to offer services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77458,"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":[35,533,4490],"class_list":["post-83771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-spectrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83771"}],"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=83771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83795,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83771\/revisions\/83795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}