{"id":552125,"date":"2007-04-26T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552125-ispa-mum-on-developments-in-adsl-space.html"},"modified":"2007-04-26T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T10:12:21","slug":"ispa-mum-on-developments-in-adsl-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552125-ispa-mum-on-developments-in-adsl-space.html","title":{"rendered":"ISPA mum on developments in ADSL space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>ADSL Resell<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom recently launched their ADSL Resell product allowing ISPs to resell the ADSL access portion of the service. This was widely welcomed by ISPs as it allows for \u2018one-price\u2019 ADSL offerings and opened up another revenue stream. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Utilizing this new offering from Telkom however is littered with obstacles and transferring an existing customer\u2019s ADSL access portion to an ISP has proven to be near impossible.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Another concern raised by service providers is the free modem offer provided by Telkom which does not seem to apply to them. The feedback from a variety of ISPs is that this practice is unfair. According to one of the ISPs, attempts to gain clarity from Telkom on the matter have been fruitless. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Do Broadband<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom\u2019s Do Broadband offerings bring true one-price packages to the local telecoms market, something welcomed by many consumers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These packages, some of which combine telephony offers from Telkom, are seen by many ISPs as possibly uncompetitive. Their ability to bundle a variety of services at a relatively low price puts pressure on ISPs and places margin squeeze on them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Looking for guidance and assistance<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">With all these developments, which will have a significant impact on Internet Service Providers, all eyes were on ISPA for guidance and feedback on this issue.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Unfortunately ISPA has been mute. Despite numerous attempts to get feedback from them, the body with a mandate to protect ISPs has not offered comment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">From correspondence received from some smaller ISPs they are concerned that ISPA may not have their best interests at heart and would rather service the needs of their bigger members like Internet Solutions and MWeb.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A second attempt to establish whether ISPA is aware of the concerns of smaller ISPs was again met with a deafening silence from the association.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=73334\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) remains mum on recent development in the ADSL space which may negatively influence ISPs. <\/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-552125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552125"}],"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=552125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}