{"id":550141,"date":"2006-09-12T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550141-do-we-need-a-regulatory-holiday.html"},"modified":"2006-09-12T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T00:20:08","slug":"do-we-need-a-regulatory-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550141-do-we-need-a-regulatory-holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Do we need a regulatory holiday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Richard Nash, secretary general of EuroISPA, noted that many incumbent operators in Europe have expressed the desire for a \u2018regulatory holiday\u2019 to provide them with incentive to invest in the industry.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Many of these incumbents were calling for a relaxing of regulation for a short time in order to drive the market forward. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Nash provided evidence that contracted the idea that a regulatory holiday would stimulate investment. Their research found a correlation between the quality of regulation and increased investment in Europe, despite the fact that all countries are essentially governed by the same regulatory framework.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">But the key ingredient seems to be good quality regulation. If the regulation creates certainty and helps to better organize the market as opposed to control the marketplace the results look good.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Other examples overseas, for example in Liberia, exists where regulation was lifted completely and the market flourished.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It seems that there is not sure fire answer to the question of whether regulation is good or bad but everyone agrees that uncertainty is fatal.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=53064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the confusion in the market regarding the ADSL regulations the idea of a \u2018regulatory holiday\u2019 may seem ideal to some broadband providers. But will this stimulate investment and ensure an improved telecoms enviornment?<\/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-550141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550141"}],"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=550141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}