New spectrum: A good thing, but temporary
New spectrum and a surge in data traffic should help SA’s mobile operators better weather the lockdown crunch
09 April 2020 - 05:00
It’s taken the Covid-19 crisis for the government to finally free up desperately needed spectrum to SA’s mobile operators, which have experienced a surge in demand for data as the lockdown forces most corporate employees to work from home.
Two weeks ago Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, minister of communications & digital technologies, instructed the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to issue new spectrum to allow operators to expand the network during the nationwide lockdown...
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