ICASA moves on mobile TV licences

16 Apr 2010

Interested broadcasters have been given three weeks by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to apply for licences to provide digital mobile television services to SA consumers. However, the move is unlikely to come in time for broadcasters to provide digital mobile coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on a commercial basis.

ICASA says it will license broadcasters in one multiplex — a chunk of radio frequency spectrum used for digital terrestrial broadcasting — in the current financial year, which ends in March 2011. This will be done in the form of an auction.

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