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Icasa publishes final IMT Roadmap for broadband

28th November 2014

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published the final International Mobile Telephony (IMT) Roadmap, aimed at promoting investments, enabling a “vibrant and competitive” telecommunications industry and ensuring universal broadband access.

The roadmap, which built on the Frequency Migration Plan published in April 2013 and followed an extensive public consultation with relevant stakeholders in recent weeks, will see the deployment of various bands of radio frequency spectrum for IMT.

The deployment of lower frequencies that propagate a wider market, through the migration of a number of current licensees out of or within the bands identified for IMT services, is expected to deliver more universal mobile broadband coverage.

Icasa has also published a draft Radio Frequency Spectrum Assignment Plan for IMT to specify the technical conditions for the use of the frequency bands.

The regulator has called on stakeholders to comment on the rules for services operating in each frequency band.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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