South Africa’s spectrum auction faces further delay as Telkom heads to court

On Wednesday , Telkom said it had filed an application asking the Gauteng High Court to review and set aside the invitation to apply, which outlines the auction rules, spectrum bands and licence obligations, published by ICASA in December., Telkom called the contemplated auction process unlawful, illegal, irrational and unreasonable given that the invite is “tainted by a number of reviewable errors”.

Telkom said the outcome of the legal proceedings, set for hearing from 14 March, will have a material impact on the availability of spectrum in this band. One of Telkom’s primary concerns is that e-tv has refused to migrate away from old analogue terrestrial TV technology by March 2022,E-tv is sitting on spectrum that Telkom desperately wants. This is because MTN, Vodacom, and Cell C all have an assignment of frequencies below 1 gigahertz , while Telkom does not.

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