{"id":549312,"date":"2006-06-26T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549312-we-support-telkom.html"},"modified":"2006-06-26T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T11:35:11","slug":"we-support-telkom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549312-we-support-telkom.html","title":{"rendered":"We support Telkom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In a letter to the Competitions Commission, Tebogo Khaas, president of the SMME Forum &#8211; which is a section 21 not-for-profit organisation that represents in excess of 3 500 small businesses primarily located in less affluent areas like townships, peri-urban and rural areas \u2013 said that the deal would mean access to affordable ICT for people in these areas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forum has noted with excitement the latent benefits inherent in the transaction as it regards this as one of the potential catalysts to accelerated deployment of affordable ICTs for SMEs and individuals, especially those in previously disadvantaged areas,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cObjection [to the deal] may not be in the general interests of small business development and the envisaged economic growth in the country, especially where it pertains to and\/or is contingent upon universal access to affordable ICTs.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=46726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/shares\/ict_sector\/597420.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Source<\/font> <\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (SMME) Forum has given its support to the proposed Telkom and Business Connexion merger despite some market observers\u2019 objections to the transaction who say that the deal would further entrench Telkom\u2019s dominance. <\/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-549312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549312"}],"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=549312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}