South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) said South Africa’s mobile network operators should reduce data prices by launching genuine wholesale service offerings.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmbracing the open-access spirit of the new National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper will enable greater mobile broadband competition on terms more acceptable to the incumbents,\u201d said ISPA.<\/p>\n
“The operators have a window of opportunity to open their networks by introducing real competition in their downstream markets,\u201d said ISPA regulatory advisor Dominic Cull.<\/p>\n
ISPA’s calls come after industry experts and the mobile networks have stated that following the government’s plan for a single, open-access mobile network in the country would be disastrous for consumers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Government’s White Paper identifies open-access and service-level competition as key drivers for South Africa\u2019s digital future.<\/p>\n ISPA referenced Telkom’s move where it separated its wholesale and retail division through the establishment of Openserve as an example of creating a more open broadband environment.<\/p>\n ISPA has repeatedly called for the mobile network operators to take action to bring down the costs of mobile broadband by introducing competitive wholesale mobile data products.<\/p>\n South Africa’s mobile network operators should reduce data prices by launching genuine wholesale service offerings, said ISPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":173020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,459,39598],"class_list":["post-186126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-ispa","tag-national-ict-policy-white-paper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186126"}],"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=186126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186132,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186126\/revisions\/186132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: ISPA calls ICT Policy White Paper \u201cbroadly positive\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"