{"id":550260,"date":"2006-09-21T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550260-antitrust-to-stage-mnp-protest.html"},"modified":"2006-09-21T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T12:11:21","slug":"antitrust-to-stage-mnp-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550260-antitrust-to-stage-mnp-protest.html","title":{"rendered":"AntiTrust to stage MNP protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">According to the AntiTrust website: Hundreds of \u2018Virginites\u2019 &amp; supporters will be taking to the streets of Sandton, Joburg wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan \u201cSet us free with MNP\u201d. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It seems that Virgin Mobile is jumping on the bandwagon in protest of the Regulators announcement that the deadline for MNP will be pushed forward from the 18th of September to the 10th of November.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Yesterday, MTN expressed relief at having the deadline extended as they said the system would not have been ready on time.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The protest, aptly called the \u201cLong Walk to Freedom\u201d, will take place this Thursday 21st September 2006 at 16h00 from cnr of Rivonia Street and Katherine Street, Sandton, to the head offices of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) in Katherine Street, Sandton.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Once the group reaches their destination, ICASA head office, they will hand over an open letter by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Mobile South Africa founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">AntiTrust and Virgin Mobile are protesting delays from ICASA and hope that with this protest the process of implementing MNP will be speeded up. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe move to MNP has been delayed by ICASA numerous times and the latest date, 18 September 2006, was moved out again, this time to 10 November 2006. It is, however, not yet confirmed whether this date too will be moved out as a result of pressure by the incumbent market players,\u201d said AntiTrust.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MNP is predicted to increase competition in the cellular market with AntiTrust stating that they feel MNP is a vital step in making the industry more customer centric.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIn Virgin Mobile\u2019s experience, MNP puts the customer in the driver\u2019s seat and allows competition to thrive. Our goal with this campaign is to bring MNP to South Africa now,\u201d said AntiTrust.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=53857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AntiTrust, a telecoms activist group, have invited irate consumers to join their march to protest the delay of Mobile Number Portability (MNP).<\/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-550260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550260"}],"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=550260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}