The Wireless Access Providers\u2019 Association (WAPA) said it supports proposed regulations that will enforce a minimum validity of three years for data bundles.<\/p>\n
WAPA chair Tim Genders made the statement at recent public hearings held by the ICASA on the matter.<\/p>\n
ICASA\u2019s hearings on the draft End-User and Subscriber Service Charter regulations<\/strong><\/a> were aimed at dealing with out-of-bundle billing, bundle expiry, and data rollover.<\/p>\n Genders, who is also the chief operations officer of Project Isizwe, said that wireless service providers would \u201cabsolutely\u201d be happy to be subject to the same regulations as mobile operators.<\/p>\n WAPA\u2019s support for ICASA\u2019s plan was surprising, as other network operators were opposed to the proposed regulations – warning they would result in a hike in the price of prepaid data bundles.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see the logic in expiring data. Data isn\u2019t milk,” said Genders.<\/p>\n He also argued that data in South Africa was more expensive than several other African nations, citing a study they had conducted.<\/p>\n Genders said that as an industry association they could not say how much wireless ISPs in South Africa charge for data top-ups.<\/p>\n However, as Project Isizwe, he said they do not offer top-ups. If you reach your daily cap of 500MB on Tshwane\u2019s free Wi-Fi network, for example, \u201cyou\u2019re done for the day\u201d.<\/p>\n In addition to signalling WAPA\u2019s support for the proposed regulations, Genders advocated for additional regulations to be imposed on mobile network operators to build free Wi-Fi hotspots.<\/p>\n Genders proposed that mobile networks should build one Wi-Fi hotspot in an underserved area for every tower they operate.<\/p>\n WAPA said it supports proposed regulations that will enforce a minimum validity period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":129486,"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":[13],"tags":[17912,35,49377,18270],"class_list":["post-252021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-data-expiry","tag-headline","tag-tim-genders","tag-wireless-access-providers-association-wapa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252021"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252085,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252021\/revisions\/252085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Expiring data<\/h3>\n
Now read: Project Isizwe appoints new CEO<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"