Author: Rob Lith

The recent spectrum made available by ICASA was long overdue and is needed to unleash the promise of 5G. While industries already have clear strategies on how to leverage the increased access to 5G to benefit their customers and end-users, many may be wondering what the spectrum allocation means to them. It starts by understanding how the spectrum allocation will affect 5G rollout and then what 5G really is. One of the consequences of the unnecessarily long wait is that operators have had to push existing spectrum towards 5G services, which is not suited for high-speed broadband. In other words…