Africa Business Radio

South Africa's Telkom is seeking an urgent court order to prevent telecoms regulator ICASA from holding a spectrum auction in March, which would further delay the country's rollout of 5G and expansion of 4G capacity already held back by legal action. Telkom says it had filed an application asking the Gauteng High Court to review and set aside the invitation to apply, which outlines the auction rules, spectrum bands and licence obligations, published by ICASA last month. It says the application includes an urgent interdict to prevent ICASA from processing any applications until the review is heard.Telkom called the contemplated auction process unlawful, illegal, irrational and unreasonable given that the invite is tainted by a number of reviewable errors.