{"id":1672,"date":"2007-10-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-18T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T05:30:00","slug":"post-office-wants-to-increase-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/1672-post-office-wants-to-increase-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Post Office wants to increase prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a statement by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) the South African Post Office (SAPO) has requested that the regulator approve a general price increase of 7 % on their fees and charges for implementation on 01 April 2008. <\/p>\n<p>SAPO states that increases in operational costs, including transport, necessitate this price increase.<\/p>\n<p>Announcements of ICASA&rsquo;s decision on this application will be made in January 2008 and the approved tariffs to be published in the government gazette by 31 January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA welcomed comment on the matter which can be e-mailed to <a href=\"mailto:gmalefo@icasa.org.za\">gmalefo@icasa.org.za<\/a> by 09 November 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=90893\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Post Office has applied for a 7 % increase on their fees and charges for implementation on 01 April 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}