Several telecoms companies, including Telkom, have taken the industry's regulator Icasa to court over the release and auctioning of high radio frequency spectrum, saying the regulator's process was flawed. The high frequency spectrum is crucial to opening up economic opportunities in the telecoms sector by allowing small players to come in, improving competition and reducing the high cost of communication.
According to an SABC report, telecommunications & postal services minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams visited the Free State, which is the first province to switch from analogue to digital migration. Residents reportedly expressed their unhappiness with the glitches that came with the new digital migration.
The process, which was initially meant to be completed by November 2011, was plagued by allegations of corruption and mismanagement.
SA reportedly missed several deadlines, including the international analogue broadcast switch-off deadline of June 17 2015.
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