{"id":58599,"date":"2012-08-30T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=58599"},"modified":"2012-08-30T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T15:24:24","slug":"electronic-communications-amendment-bill-submission-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/58599-electronic-communications-amendment-bill-submission-extended.html","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Communications Amendment Bill submission extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Dina Pule has extended the date for submissions on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill to 14 September 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to allow for further consultations with all stakeholders the Minister has granted an extension as per Government Gazette 35642, published today 30 August 2012,\u201d the DoC said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill was published in Government Gazette 35525 on 18 July 2012. The Bill aims to enhance broad-based black economic empowerment and improve competitiveness within the industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LTE spectrum for SA: SNAFU\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/57285-lte-spectrum-for-sa-snafu.html\"><strong>LTE spectrum for SA: SNAFU<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Broadband definition more malleable in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/55611-broadband-definition-more-malleable-in-sa.html\"><strong>Broadband definition more malleable in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Broadband speed to stay 256kbps in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/42125-broadband-speed-to-stay-256kbps-in-sa.html\"><strong>Broadband speed to stay 256kbps in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Is a 5Mbps broadband definition of any value?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/34412-is-the-5mbps-broadband-definition-of-any-value.html\"><strong>Is a 5Mbps broadband definition of any value?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DoC to increase broadband speed definition\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/33226-doc-to-increase-speed-definition-of-broadband.html\"><strong>DoC to increase broadband speed definition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Communications has extended the date for submissions on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36766,"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":[3],"tags":[36,6002,1023,6555],"class_list":["post-58599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-active","tag-dina-pule","tag-doc","tag-electronic-communications-amendment-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58599"}],"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=58599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58603,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58599\/revisions\/58603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}