Government is moving to establish the ground rules for spectrum trading and spectrum sharing in South Africa.
to liberalise South Africa ’s telecommunications industry further by establishing the ground rules for spectrum trading and spectrum sharing.
“To promote economic development, market-based approaches such as spectrum trading, spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access use and spectrum ‘subletting’ and/or sharing between licensees, which ensure public policy gains in the use of spectrum, are permitted with prior approval” of communications regulatorIcasa must set standard operating rules, terms and conditions applicable for the trading, sharing and subletting of spectrum, it says.
Icasa must scrutinise all transactions relating to the sharing of spectrum between licensees, regardless of how these transactions are portrayed or labelled; Icasa must put in place a regulatory framework that clarifies spectrum trading rules between licensees and promotes approaches that prohibit monopolisation of spectrum, dominance and anticompetitive behaviour; and
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