The Authority hereby gives notice of its intention to conduct an inquiry in terms of section 4B of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Act no. 13 of 2000 ("ICASA Act").

The purpose of the Inquiry is to solicit the stakeholders’ views and inputs on the frequencies identified through the GE84 Optimization process in the FM band (87.5 -108 MHz) allocated for sound broadcasting in the National Radio Frequency Plan, with the view to categorise these for public, commercial and community sound broadcasting in order to update the assignments as per

Annexure A: VHF/FM Table of the Terrestrial Broadcasting Frequency Plan (“TBFP”) 20131. Furthermore, to seek stakeholder views and inputs on the update to the VHF/FM Table of the TBFP