{"id":552373,"date":"2007-05-25T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552373-telkom-soon-not-only-option-2.html"},"modified":"2007-05-25T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:51:08","slug":"telkom-soon-not-only-option-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552373-telkom-soon-not-only-option-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom soon not only option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Consumers will be able to select carriers of their choice for the transmission of voice and data,&quot; head of the local loop unbundling committee (LLUC) Tshilidzi Marwala told journalists in Cape Town on Friday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Speaking at the handover of a report by the LLUC he said the process of opening up the telephone network would commence in January next year and be 80% complete by 2011. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Marwala\u00a0is chairperson of the LLUC. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to one committee member, the process &#8211; known as &quot;unbundling&quot; &#8211; could see the cost of telephone calls dropping by between 30% and 70% in some areas as a result of competition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=76214\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From early next year consumers will start to have a choice when it comes to picking a fixed-line phone company. <\/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-552373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552373"}],"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=552373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}