{"id":35778,"date":"2011-10-11T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35778"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T08:58:25","slug":"llu-decision-unacceptable-cwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/35778-llu-decision-unacceptable-cwu.html","title":{"rendered":"LLU decision unacceptable: CWU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary:<\/span> CWU argues that while LLU may lead to a reduction of prices, it will not promote universal access for the majority. The union calls for the status quo to be maintained.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Communications Workers Union (CWU)<\/a> today (11 OCtober 2011) told ICASA<\/a> that Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)<\/a> will not lead to sustainable long term competition, and may inhibit infrastructure based competition.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the ICASA LLU hearings in Sandton the CWU argued that while LLU may well lead to a decrease in prices, it will not lead to universal access due to limitations in network coverage.<\/p>\n

\u201cLLU may lead to a reduction of prices for those who have access to the network, but it will not promote universal access for the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CWU said that the rich, white urban population will be the likely beneficiaries of LLU, and not poorer black people in rural areas.<\/p>\n

The CWU also warned that LLU may lead to the opening of further avenues for abuse of security and intelligence agencies for the benefit of certain unscrupulous individuals and groups.<\/p>\n

The CWU said that the status quo should be maintained as a decision on LLU was taken prematurely and it is therefore unreasonable, unrealistic and unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill LLU do any good to South Africa? The answer is No,\u201d the CWU told ICASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Communications Workers Union (CWU) says that the status quo should be maintained as a decision on LLU is unreasonable, unrealistic and unacceptable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25147,"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":[3],"tags":[5562,373,35,533,5564,535],"class_list":["post-35778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-communications-workers-union","tag-cwu","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-icasa-llu-hearings","tag-llu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778"}],"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=35778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35784,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35778\/revisions\/35784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}