The Department of Communications has published the Next-Generation Radio Frequency Spectrum policy.
The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has set September 2024 as the deadline for prohibiting the type approval of 2G and 3G-only devices in South Africa.in the Government Gazette on Tuesday, 28 May 2024. It outlines preliminary shutdown dates for South Africa’s 2G and 3G networks.
After that, South African mobile network operators will begin shutting down their 2G and 3G networks from 1 June 2025. However, it is unclear which will go first. The department previously told MyBroadband that mobile network operators would decide which network to shut down first. “Subsequent to the spectrum policy that was published in September 2022, the Department received substantive inputs from the public including industry members and services sectors,” it said.
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