[PATCH v2] wireless-regdb: Update 6 GHz rules for South Africa (ZA)
Louis Kotze
loukot at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 00:28:44 PDT 2026
ICASA Notice 1822 of 2023 (23 May 2023) amended Annexure B of the
Radio Frequency Spectrum Regulations, 2015, to allow licence-exempt
use of 5925-6425 MHz for WAS/RLAN.
The notice references ETSI EN 303 687 and defines two device
categories:
LPI (Low Power Indoor): 23 dBm EIRP, indoor only
VLP (Very Low Power): 14 dBm EIRP, no restriction
The current entry uses VLP power (14 dBm) with no indoor flag.
Update to LPI with the NO-OUTDOOR flag.
LPI is the appropriate choice because indoor WiFi is the primary
use case for 6 GHz. The VLP limit of 14 dBm is too low for
practical network operation with standard access points advertising
LPI power levels, causing repeated regulatory mismatch errors that
on MLO (Multi-Link Operation) setups disrupt the 6 GHz link.
Per maintainer guidance, only one rule per band is allowed, so this
replaces the VLP rule rather than adding the LPI rule alongside it.
Reference:
ICASA Notice 1822 of 2023, Government Gazette No. 48643 (23 May 2023)
Amendment to Annexure B, Radio Frequency Spectrum Regulations, 2015
https://www.icasa.org.za/uploads/files/Notice-to-amend-Annexure-B-of-the-Radio-Frequency-Spectrum.pdf
Signed-off-by: Louis Kotze <loukot at gmail.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- Replace VLP rule with LPI rule per "one rule per band" guidance
(Chen-Yu Tsai), rather than adding both.
- Resend as standalone top-level patch. The previous v2 was sent
inline as a reply on 2026-04-10, which the b4-ty tooling cannot
extract. No content change from that v2.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/wireless-regdb/CAMcSecJ7nDo+-JqGri80m8yn_cp9UfajHqLQDPYup7Zh7QVj7Q@mail.gmail.com/
db.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/db.txt b/db.txt
index e019bd0..c310b7f 100644
--- a/db.txt
+++ b/db.txt
@@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@ country ZA: DFS-ETSI
(5170 - 5250 @ 80), (20), AUTO-BW
(5250 - 5330 @ 80), (20), DFS, AUTO-BW
(5490 - 5710 @ 160), (30)
- (5925 - 6425 @ 320), (14)
+ (5925 - 6425 @ 320), (23), NO-OUTDOOR
country ZW: DFS-ETSI
(2402 - 2482 @ 40), (20)
base-commit: d0781152c3349d64faffaaa28d1221eafe389346
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2.54.0
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