{"id":92929,"date":"2013-12-03T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=92929"},"modified":"2013-12-04T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T06:35:00","slug":"broadband-progress-from-the-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/92929-broadband-progress-from-the-doc.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband progress from the DoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Communications (<a title=\"DoC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289205-DoC-Department-of-Communications\">DoC<\/a>) completed its \u201cbroadband policy, strategy and plan\u201d, and has sent it to cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>DoC spokesperson Siyabulela Qoza said that cabinet meets tomorrow, and that the broadband document will most likely be available on Thursday during the post cabinet briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Communications minister <a title=\"Yunus Carrim\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/543603-Yunus-Carrim\">Yunus Carrim<\/a> previously said that the DoC will present their revised information and communication technology (ICT) policies to Cabinet on 4 December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs government we\u2019ve said that our policies, legislation and regulations are lagging behind developments in [ICT] over the past 15 years,\u201d Carrim said. \u201cWe\u2019ve said we\u2019re going to do something about this. Well, we are!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on SA&#8217;s broadband policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Broadband, tech policies heading to Cabinet: Carrim\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/92347-broadband-tech-policies-heading-to-cabinet-carrim.html\"><strong>Broadband, tech policies heading to Cabinet: Carrim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/90187-broadband-for-sa-discussed-5mbps-100mbps-1gbps-targets.html\"><strong>Broadband for SA discussed: 5Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps targets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DoC deadlines: prepare to be impressed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/88185-doc-deadlines-prepare-to-be-impressed.html\"><strong>DoC deadlines: prepare to be impressed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Communications completed the broadband policy and its strategy around broadband<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76298,"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":[4],"tags":[44,239,35,20397],"class_list":["post-92929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-2","tag-broadband-policy","tag-headline","tag-yunus-carrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929"}],"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=92929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92975,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92929\/revisions\/92975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}