{"id":551335,"date":"2007-01-22T18:40:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551335-tag-s-basic-contention-is-beyond-dispute.html"},"modified":"2007-01-22T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:40:26","slug":"tag-s-basic-contention-is-beyond-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551335-tag-s-basic-contention-is-beyond-dispute.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;TAG&#8217;s basic contention is beyond dispute&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;The TAG&#8217;s basic contention is beyond dispute,&quot; she said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">She said the individuals making up the group had expressed their frustration with telecoms costs and service in SA by collecting enough money to run a full-page advertisement in Friday&#8217;s Mail &amp; Guardian. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">She said one step President Thabo Mbeki should consider was to transfer the shareholder management of government&#8217;s 38% stake in Telkom from the Communications Ministry to Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Ministry responsible for broad liberalisation policy should not have the &quot;conflicting interest of maximising the state&#8217;s shareholding interest in the dominant incumbent&quot;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=64362\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government should take note of the frustration expressed by the Telecoms Action Group (TAG), Democratic Alliance spokesperson on communications Dene Smuts said on Monday. <\/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-551335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551335"}],"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=551335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}