{"id":548198,"date":"2006-03-10T06:04:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T06:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548198-telkom-to-cut-prices.html"},"modified":"2006-03-10T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T06:04:32","slug":"telkom-to-cut-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548198-telkom-to-cut-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"TELKOM TO CUT PRICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">It is not known by how much Telkom will reduce its prices but chief sales and marketing officer Wally Beelders promises a detailed announcement will be made by the end of March. He says Telkom will also announce that it will bundle discounted voice telephony products with its broadband solutions. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The reductions come as competition from wireless operators, including Wireless Business Solutions and Sentech, intensifies and as the recently licensed second network operator prepares to launch its first services. Telkom has come under fire over the high prices it charges consumers for broadband line rentals and for the strict monthly bandwidth caps it imposes. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Icasa last year held formal hearings into the matter following complaints by industry and consumer groups. The regulator has proposed a range of punitive measures, though these have been panned by Telkom and by some of its rivals as poorly thought out.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>Inet-Bridge ||<\/em>\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=39085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is expected to announce a price reduction of broadband line rentals later this month. Further cuts are expected later in the year when the company presents its annual tariff filing to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for approval.<\/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-548198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548198"}],"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=548198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}