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The WOAN may be dead, but open access is not

eriinfo.com4 days ago08 mins

Justin Mackenzie, managing director of VO Connect. The withdrawal of South Africa’s wireless open access network (WOAN) licensing direction has understandably revived the debate about what should happen to the spectrum that had been reserved for it. Much of the discussion has focused on who may eventually gain access to that spectrum, particularly in the…

Malatsi withdraws Woan spectrum set-aside after seven years

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago07 mins

Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has formally withdrawn the reservation of high-demand spectrum for a wireless open-access network, more than four years after cabinet moved to scrap the scheme, leaving the regulator, Icasa, free to license frequencies that have sat idle since. The amendment to the 2019 policy on high-demand spectrum was…