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Spectrum Rollout Faces Further Delays as Telkom Approaches Courts

SOUTH AFRICA
  • Network operator Telkom has approached SA’s High Court seeking an urgent order to prevent regulator ICASA from holding a spectrum auction in March.
  • Telkom said it had filed an application today asking the Gauteng High Court to review and set aside the invitation to apply, which outlines the auction rules, spectrum bands and licence obligations, published by ICASA in December.
  • Telkom called the contemplated auction process unlawful, illegal, irrational and unreasonable given that the invite is “tainted by a number of reviewable errors”.
  • Telkom is also fighting the lack of clarity around the timing in licensing a Wholesale Open Access Network, which refers to a single large network available to all mobile operators so that they do not need to build their own infrastructure.
  • Telkom said the outcome of the legal proceedings, set for hearing from 14 March, will have a material impact on the availability of spectrum in the sub-1 GHz band.
  • Sub-1GHz spectrum lets cellular towers cover a wider area and offers better indoor penetration. In dense urban areas, sub-1GHz must be combined with higher frequency spectrum to build network capacity.
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