DataMustFall “To simply lay the blame for data costs at the feet of the operators is wrong.”
MTN said it had to compensate for a lack of spectrum by spending more than R50bn in the last five years to build a network without any 4G spectrum having been allocated.For more than a decade the government and regulators had failed to release the spectrum critically needed by the mobile phone industry to lower the cost of communicating.
It said the government and regulators had failed to release the spectrum - radio frequencies needed to transmit data - that the industry needed to lower costs.MTN said it had to compensate for the lack of spectrum in South Africa by spending more than R50bn in the past five years to build a world-class network, providing more than 95% of the population with 4G coverage, without any 4G spectrum having been allocated.
The company said it made little sense to hand significant spectrum to operators that were yet to be established.
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