{"id":35176,"date":"2013-04-09T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=35176"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T11:13:15","slug":"sentech-to-return-spectrum-to-icasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/35176\/sentech-to-return-spectrum-to-icasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentech to return spectrum to Icasa"},"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 on spectrum<\/h3>\n

Battle for spectrum in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spectrum migration threatens TV broadcasters warns E-TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mobile spectrum would create 1.5m jobs in SA: GSMA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cheaper broadband, not just faster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After consideration, Sentech has decided to return its spectrum suitable for mobile broadband to ICASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":35177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553,21],"tags":[26,5552,3903,1646,3901],"class_list":["post-35176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-radio-frequency-spectrum","tag-sentech","tag-setumo-mohapi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35176"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38402,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions\/38402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}