{"id":114615,"date":"2014-11-27T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114615"},"modified":"2014-11-27T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:08:49","slug":"data-will-be-free-vox-telecom-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/114615-data-will-be-free-vox-telecom-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Data will be free: Vox Telecom CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data will become free in future and will be packaged in different ways to lower the barrier to entry for users. This is according to Vox Telecom CEO Jacques du Toit.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Biznews\u2019 Alec Hogg, du Toit said that South Africa was a &#8220;phenomenally deflationary environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoice is coming down at a rate of about 13 to 14 percent a year, data and Internet access is about 20 percent a year,\u201d said du Toit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately data, we believe, will be free. It will be packaged in different ways but what\u2019s happening is it is lowering the barrier to entry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit said that with lower costs and the massive deflation South Africa was facing, \u201cwe are giving access to Internet and voice services to more and more people in South Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The full <a title=\"Biznews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biznews.com\/video\/2014\/11\/23\/the-dark-side-of-sas-broadband-glut-time-for-an-ict-codesa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biznews interview is available here<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on broadband<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/113553-parkview-ftth-project-chooses-dark-fibre-africa.html\"><strong>Parkview FTTH project chooses Dark Fibre Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/108984-telkoms-first-100mbps-ftth-suburbs.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s first 100Mbps FTTH suburbs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/91565-vodacoms-big-broadband-plans-ftth-lte-and-3g.html\"><strong>Vodacom\u2019s big broadband plans: FTTH, LTE and 3G<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox Telecom CEO Jacques du Toit believes that data will become free in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":88689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9359,35,2324,49],"class_list":["post-114615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-alec-hogg","tag-headline","tag-jacques-du-toit","tag-vox-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114617,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114615\/revisions\/114617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}