{"id":337084,"date":"2005-03-03T12:50:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/337084-schools-not-getting-their-half-price-internet.html"},"modified":"2005-03-03T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T12:50:53","slug":"schools-not-getting-their-half-price-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/337084-schools-not-getting-their-half-price-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Schools not getting their half-price Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Department of Education spokesman Tommy Makhode says: &#8220;While it is a priority for us, we are still compiling a register of needs that includes cheaper Internet connectivity for schools.&#8221;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">In September last year, communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced that schools were entitled to a 50% reduction in their Internet fees. This was gazetted a month later as part of the overall telecommunications liberalisation announcement. This discount came into effect on 1 January.<\/font><br \/>\n <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p><font size=\"2\">However, two months later, very few of the country&#8217;s estimated 24 000 schools have seen the benefit of this discount and they are not likely to soon as the DOE has not made any plans to allow schools to fast track the procedure to register with Telkom.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itweb.co.za\/sections\/business\/2005\/0503031154.asp?S=IT%20in%20Government&#038;A=ITG&#038;O=FRGN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are not receiving the 50% Internet connectivity discount they are entitled to because the Department of Education (DOE) is still compiling a register of its needs, a spokesman says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337084"}],"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=337084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}