{"id":5916,"date":"2008-11-10T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-10T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:10:00","slug":"stations-seek-cheaper-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/5916-stations-seek-cheaper-boxes.html","title":{"rendered":"Stations seek cheaper boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC, M-Net and e.tv have called for cheaper set-top boxes to allow more television owners to receive digital broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>In its pilot programme, the government&rsquo;s proposed set-top boxes will cost about R700 each and will include a device allowing people to access public services online.<\/p>\n<p>The state has promised to subsidise these, but e.tv, M-Net and the SABC said yesterday that some viewers might not want the online services and should be allowed to buy cheaper boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Communications Authority of SA said it would consider their comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=144783\">Digital TV set-top-box discussion <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Business Report<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC, M-Net and e.tv have called for cheaper set-top boxes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}