{"id":195994,"date":"2017-01-26T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=195994"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:07:33","slug":"ispa-membership-shows-solid-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/195994-ispa-membership-shows-solid-growth.html","title":{"rendered":"ISPA membership shows solid growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association said it has never experienced a period of negative growth, with the association’s membership\u00a0increasing over the past 21 years.<\/p>\n

The association’s membership count currently stands at 184 firms, which have all committed to upholding the ISPA Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n

“ISPA’s united voice has resulted in many legal, legislative, regulatory, competition, and consumer victories for the local web – all funded by member contributions,” said ISPA chair Graham Beneke.<\/p>\n

“For ISPs committed to doing things right, ISPA membership is a badge of respectability.”<\/p>\n

Beneke said ISPA membership has a number of benefits, including the building of consumer confidence, the opportunity to contribute to a fair legislative framework, and the development of local infrastructure.<\/p>\n

This includes\u00a0the operation of South Africa\u2019s most important Internet exchanges, which lowers the cost to communicate.<\/p>\n

ISPA was recognised as an IRB in 2009 and its Code of Conduct was formally adopted in 2002.<\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0ISP graphs show the split between local and international traffic<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association said it has never experienced a period of negative growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163494,"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":[4928,459,75],"class_list":["post-195994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-isp","tag-ispa","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195994"}],"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=195994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195996,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195994\/revisions\/195996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}