{"id":201686,"date":"2017-03-07T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201686"},"modified":"2017-03-07T08:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:13:01","slug":"disappearing-data-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/201686-disappearing-data-doesnt-exist.html","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing data doesn&#8217;t exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data leakage is a technical impossibility and an increase in data depletion is due to a surge in data use, according to WASPA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This surge in data usage is behind the data depletion that has generated recent media coverage,&#8221; said WASPA chairperson Casper de Villiers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you consume something, it will be depleted. That&#8217;s basic economics,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>WASPA said South Africans are spending a growing proportion of their cellular spend on data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;South Africans are abandoning voice-based communication in droves. We predict that less than half of total mobile spend will be on voice calls by the end of this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said an increasing data share of cellphone spend is good news for the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GSM Association, every doubling of mobile data use adds 0.5 percentage points to the GDP.<\/p>\n<p>WASPA said it would continue to monitor potential threats to mobile users, and it advised users to download a data usage app\u00a0to monitor spend.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/198550-vodacom-and-mtn-must-cut-data-prices-in-south-africa-ministers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom and MTN must cut data prices in South Africa \u2013 Ministers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data leakage is a technical impossibility and an increase in data depletion is due to a surge in data use, said WASPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[32408,43,1285],"class_list":["post-201686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-data-leakage","tag-mobile","tag-waspa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201686"}],"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=201686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201696,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201686\/revisions\/201696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}