All TVWS network operators:

We would like to inform you that from the 27/01/2023, the day-to-day administration of the CSIR Geo-location Spectrum Database (S-GLSD) a.k.a. Spectrum Switch will no longer be handled by the CSIR team, but instead by our white-label licensee AdNotes Digital. Our licensee, AdNotes Digital will be providing the day-to-day S-GLSD services to all TVWS network operators on their instance of the S-GLSD hosted by CSIR at the following URL https://spectrumswitch.co.za  

We would like to assure you that there will be no degradation in the Quality of Service since Adnotes Digital will still be using the same CSIR technology.  With that in mind, all TVWS network devices currently registered at https://whitespaces.csir.co.za  will now be migrated to https://spectrumswitch.co.za. This migration process will be done seamlessly to avoid any disruptions to existing services. 

The new Spectrum Switch administrator, AdNotes Digital will contact you for more information regarding the Service Level Agreement contracting and other commercial arrangements. 

It is important to note that before the actual migration process takes place, a communication will be sent to all TVWS network operators individually to inform you about the steps to be followed.  

We hope this information will be well understood and if there’s any clarification needed, please let us know as soon as possible.  

With thanks, 

Prof. Luzango Mfupe