{"id":3112,"date":"2008-03-10T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-10T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T07:57:00","slug":"telecoms-consumer-rights-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/3112-telecoms-consumer-rights-month.html","title":{"rendered":"Telecoms Consumer Rights Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will&nbsp;focus on raising consumer awareness regarding the&nbsp;provisioning of telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the awareness campaign, ICASA will officially launch Consumer Rights Month in support of the International Consumer Rights day on the 15 th of March. <\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the Consumer Month is to make consumers aware of their rights to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to Information Communications and Technology services<\/li>\n<li>Affordable prices<\/li>\n<li>Quality services<\/li>\n<li>Choice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to ICASA: &lsquo;Consumer Awareness is about the authority&rsquo;s function of interfacing with the public, public outreach, information dissemination to all regardless of the status in society as well as consumer complaints handling procedures.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=109122\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA will launch their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcConsumer Rights Month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on the 15 th of March in support of the International Consumer Rights day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}