{"id":548121,"date":"2006-03-02T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T06:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548121-new-zealanders-protest-in-streets-about-broadband.html"},"modified":"2006-03-02T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T06:51:24","slug":"new-zealanders-protest-in-streets-about-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548121-new-zealanders-protest-in-streets-about-broadband.html","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders protest in streets about broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Newstalk ZB reports that a group called Slingshot will gather outside the offices of Telecom, New Zealand\u2019s telecom provider, in Wellington.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Annette Presley, the founder of Slingshot, will hand out 35,000 loaves of bread to illustrate the point that Telecom is only giving consumers the crumbs.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to the protestors Telecom is ripping off New Zealanders.<\/font> <font size=\"2\">\u00a0<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">South Africa faces many similar challenges with Telkom\u2019s high ADSL prices hindering the uptake of broadband.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom is the only fixed line provider in SA and like Telecom they are able to set the price for their services at what is deemed by consumers to be high.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In order to bring local services in line with international standards true competition is required.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">South Africa do not look to be able to introduce this type of competition anytime soon but perhaps New Zealanders will be more successful with their protest.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=38775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The citizens of Wellington, New Zealand are taking their protest about the high prices of broadband to the streets.<\/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-548121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548121"}],"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=548121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}