Broadcasting regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), says it intends to complete the necessary licensing process by June 2010, the same month as the World Cup kick-off.
But it concedes that the “prospective licensees may not be ready [to begin broadcasting] at that particular time”. Broadcasters and telecommunications operators must first seed the market with cellular handsets capable of receiving mobile broadcast signals.
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