Spectrum auction delayed, again
Icasa says the announcement of qualified bidders for the spectrum will be delayed by a month, from February 22 to March 23
22 February 2021 - 15:07
SA's telecoms regulator has delayed the start of the much-anticipated radio frequency spectrum auction, saying an auctioneer is yet to be appointed, meaning the process will not be completed by the end of March as expected.
Spectrum — the radio waves by which information is transmitted — has not been allocated in SA for almost a decade. In 2020 the regulator outlined plans to auction R8bn worth of broadband spectrum. It aimed to have completed the auction by the end of March...
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