{"id":238028,"date":"2017-11-17T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=238028"},"modified":"2017-11-17T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:14:00","slug":"icasa-extends-deadline-for-comments-on-data-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/238028-icasa-extends-deadline-for-comments-on-data-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA extends deadline for comments on data rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has published a second draft of its proposed amendments to the\u00a0End-User and Subscriber Service Charter.<\/p>\n<p>It has also provided an additional 30 working days for stakeholders to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Following ICASA issuing the first draft of its amendments, it received 20 submissions from stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ICASA decided to publish a second draft Regulations for further stakeholder consultation,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Key interventions published in the draft include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Expiry of data<\/strong> \u2013 operators are required to provide prepaid data bundles with minimum expiry period of three years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Out of bundle billing<\/strong> \u2013 operators are required to send usage notifications for data depletion at 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% depletion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rollover of unused minutes and data<\/strong> \u2013 providers are required to provide an option to post-paid users to roll-over their unused allocation to the next billing period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone interested in commenting on the regulations has until 3 January 2018 to submit their representations to ICASA.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA will then hold public hearings on the matter from 7-9 February 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/235498-icasa-must-force-networks-to-take-data-prices-seriously-liquid-telecom.html\">ICASA must force networks to take data prices seriously<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA has provided an additional 30 working days for stakeholders to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18668],"tags":[36452,18090],"class_list":["post-238028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-government","tag-botlenyana-mokhele","tag-independent-communications-authority-of-south-africa-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238028"}],"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=238028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238034,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238028\/revisions\/238034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}