{"id":546626,"date":"2005-08-03T15:04:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546626-telkom-must-stop-their-bully-boy-tactics.html"},"modified":"2005-08-03T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T15:04:59","slug":"telkom-must-stop-their-bully-boy-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546626-telkom-must-stop-their-bully-boy-tactics.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTelkom must stop their bully-boy tactics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The party has put its weight behind ICASA adding that the regulator should have the authority in a democracy to regulate independently and act within the best interests of all industry players and citizens.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThreats of crippling legal action against ICASA\u2019s decision-making and economic sabotage, which would be the result of severing existing ADSL lines and disinvesting in upgrading ADSL networks, cannot be allowed,\u201d said Suzanne Vos, IFP spokesperson for Telecommunications.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vos recommends that the Minister of Communications should step in to stop Telkom\u2019s bully-boy tactics as ICASA and South Africa as a whole cannot afford a costly legal battle.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Steven White, Telkom\u2019s executive for product development has gone on record with Moneyweb as stating that Telkom simply cannot go ahead with implementing the ICASA findings from the ADSL hearing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He added that, \u201cIt is incomprehensible that such a flawed finding could be made.\u201d Yet in the same breath he acknowledges that they were given fair representation at the hearing but complains that the Icasa panel ignored their submissions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">During the course of the hearings Telkom was the only organization that was given the privilege of presenting twice. They opened the debate and at the end addressed concerns raised during the hearing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vos notes that Telkom does have the right to bring this issue before the courts but there is the equal concern as to the rights of the citizens of South Africa. Government has the obligation to step in and ensure that Telkom\u2019s threats do not have \u201clong-term and disastrous economic consequences for the country\u201d states Vos.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The bottom line according to the IFP is that ICASA cannot afford a costly legal battle and neither can the country.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has stated that Telkom\u2019s threat to pull the plug on ADSL services cannot go unchallenged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546626"}],"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=546626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}