{"id":16511,"date":"2010-11-11T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-11T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:02:00","slug":"rica-deadline-extended-by-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/16511-rica-deadline-extended-by-six-months.html","title":{"rendered":"RICA deadline extended by six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of legislation, cellphone users had to register their sim cards by the end of December this year.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing the media on Thursday, following Cabinet&#8217;s Wednesday meeting, government spokesman Themba Maseko said the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act would be amended shortly to extend the deadline by six months.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile operators would be required to report to government on how they planned to comply with the new deadline, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/283631-RICA-deadline-extended\" target=\"_self\" title=\"RICA deadline extended by six months\">RICA deadline extended by six months<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet has approved a six-month extension of the deadline for the registration of customers of mobile cellular operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}