{"id":547897,"date":"2006-02-02T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T08:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547897-icasa-awards-openvoice-a-switching-systems-licence.html"},"modified":"2006-02-02T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T08:39:03","slug":"icasa-awards-openvoice-a-switching-systems-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547897-icasa-awards-openvoice-a-switching-systems-licence.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA awards OpenVoice a Switching Systems licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">OpenVoice focuses on the design, delivery and implementation of converged telecommunications systems via open source platforms. The new licence, the\u00a0first awarded to an open source system internet protocol provider in South Africa, allows it to connect, operate and maintain its VoIP (voice over internet protocol) gateway on the public switched telephone network.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Said Clayton Hayward, head of group strategy: &quot;Obtaining the licence ensures we can continue to work closely with and support ICASA&#8217;s objective of lowering corporate and consumer communication costs.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=36823\" 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 \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has awarded a Switching Systems (SWS) licence to openVoice, a local provider of telecommunications solutions, the group said on Thursday.<\/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-547897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547897"}],"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=547897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}