{"id":547915,"date":"2006-02-06T06:14:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T06:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547915-ispa-plays-open-cards-with-consumers.html"},"modified":"2006-02-06T06:14:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T06:14:36","slug":"ispa-plays-open-cards-with-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547915-ispa-plays-open-cards-with-consumers.html","title":{"rendered":"ISPA plays open cards with consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Ant Brooks, Chair of the ISPA Regulatory Committee, has highlighted the need for open discussion.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cISPA needs to do more to explain its point of view to the public and needs to pay more attention to the opinions voice by consumers. We&#8217;re trying to do that. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here,\u201d said Brooks.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In a telecoms sector rife with unfulfilled promises ISPA is one of the few who are practicing what they preach. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">They are already engaging with consumers in open discussions on the MyADSL forums and have made their recent Competition Commission Complaint and related documentation available to the public.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Local Internet users have welcomed ISPA\u2019s more transparent attitude. Their recent revisiting and updating of line charges further indicates their dedication to an improved South African Internet environment. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Let\u2019s hope the other telecoms players follow ISPA\u2019s lead. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=37132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Service Providers&#8217; Association (ISPA) has endured some criticism in the past for not being transparent enough or engaging with the public, but recent events are changing all this.<\/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-547915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547915"}],"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=547915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}