The Competition Commission intends to publish a provisional report concerning the state of data services in South Africa.<\/p>\n
“The Commission will invite submissions on the provisional report and will then engage in further consultations with key stakeholders before completing its assessment,” it said in a statement<\/a><\/strong>. The report is set to be released by 30 April.<\/p>\n This follows an inquiry which was launched in August 2017 that sought to discern whether there are “features of the sector that prevent, distort, or restrict competition”.<\/p>\n In October 2018, the Competition Commission held public hearings to deepen its understanding of the state of competition in the data services sector.<\/p>\n The inquiry was originally slated to be completed by 31 March 2019, but upon the Commission’s decision to further analyse evidence this date was amended to 31 December 2019.<\/p>\n The Competition Commission intends to publish a provisional report concerning the state of data services in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":262639,"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":[14],"tags":[3222,24886,38954],"class_list":["post-301368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-competition-commission","tag-data-costs","tag-data-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301368"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301374,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301368\/revisions\/301374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Telkom launches \u201cbest mobile data deal\u201d in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"