{"id":547757,"date":"2006-01-18T11:45:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547757-fines-update-a-call-away.html"},"modified":"2006-01-18T11:45:43","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T11:45:43","slug":"fines-update-a-call-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547757-fines-update-a-call-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Fines update a call away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Johannesburg metro police department on Tuesday launched a service that makes it possible for motorists to find out whether they have any outstanding traffic fines or warrants of arrest via text messages on their cellphones. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The new system, developed by 2Big Mobile Applications, is to be operated by Vodacom. It forms part of the department&#8217;s integrated information management system, which has to date cost R61m. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Users will send their identity numbers to 36,997 at a cost of R5 a query. They will then be sent a password which they will send to the same number and any information on outstanding traffic fines will be sent to their cellphones. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">2Big Mobile spokesman Mokgatle Maesela said the system was secure and no one would be able to access an individual&#8217;s information. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Derek Masoek, metro police director of operations and programmes, said any queries would register on the department&#8217;s computer system and cellphone numbers would be captured and added to a data base. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Motorists will not be able to argue that they were not aware there were outstanding warrants because the system will show they lodged a query.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Inet-Bridge<\/i> ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=35763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new system, developed by 2Big Mobile Applications, is to be operated by Vodacom.<\/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-547757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547757"}],"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=547757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}