South Africa getting state digital infrastructure company — with a new spectrum policy

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The South African government says it can’t leave the country’s fate in the hands of commercially-driven network operators.

However, it now appears that the WOAN is merely being substituted for a “state digital infrastructure company.”

The idea behind the WOAN was to give smaller service providers access to cellular network infrastructure built by a neutral wholesaler, rather than Vodacom or MTN.Government also didn’t seem to appreciate that operators like Vodacom, MTN, and Telkom have poured hundreds of billions of rands into their networks since GSM services first launched in South Africa in 1994.

Unassigned spectrum in the mid-band should be released in 2024, and the government should urgently provide a policy framework for the licensing of millimetre wave spectrum.

 

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So the government is taking away and then giving it back to themselves and then doing so for free no commercial gain whatsoever... remarkable economics.

Just another opportunity for the criminals to loot

What's Telkom?

'on the spectrum policy'

Try running a digital infrastructure company with no power🤡🤡🤡

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