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Rapid Deployment
30
Sep

Telecoms companies have the right to build a 5G tower in your yard – Minister

September 30, 2020
Staff Writer 30 September 2020 Source: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/5g/369541-telecoms-companies-have-the-right-to-build-a-5g-tower-in-your-yard-minister.html An electronic communications network service licensee has the right to enter upon any land to construct electronic communications networks and facilities. This was feedback from Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams who was answering a question in Parliament from the ACDP’s Wayne Maxim Thring. Thring questioned Ndabeni-Abrahams on a new policy that...
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06
Oct

Public invitation to comment on the draft of the spectrum policy direction for ICASA

October 6, 2018
The draft Policy Direction has been published in the Government Gazette: www.gpwonline.co.za/Gazettes/Gazettes/41935_27-9_TelecomsPostalServ.pdf After considering public comments, the minister will issue a final Policy Direction to ICASA which will enable them to start their processes for licensing. Interested persons have until 8 November 2018 to provide written comments on the policy and policy direction. Dr Cwele...
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10
Sep

South Africa – Small Cells and 5G Reality Check

September 10, 2018
South Africa: 1. Your government is a business with a primary goal of making money. 2. Your government earns income from spectrum allocation. 3. Your government has shares in telecommunications companies. 4. Once everyone has “line of sight” from their bedrooms of a small cell less than 100m away the property values argument will likely...
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10
Sep

South Africa – 5G and Rapid Deployment

September 10, 2018
Background: FCCUp- WT Docket No. 17-79; WC Docket No. 17-84 (September 5, 2018) (1): To meet rapidly increasing demand for wireless services and prepare our national infrastructure for 5G, providers must deploy infrastructure at significantly more locations using small cell facilities. Building upon streamlining actions already taken by state and local governments, this Declaratory Ruling...
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