{"id":9514,"date":"2009-09-07T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:06:00","slug":"icasa-calls-urgent-meeting-on-telecoms-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9514-icasa-calls-urgent-meeting-on-telecoms-costs.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA calls urgent meeting on telecoms costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) today confirmed that it has called a meeting with various telecoms players to discuss the cost of telecoms in South Africa.&nbsp; The high interconnect rate is likely to feature highly on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>According to ICASA spokesperson Sekgoela Sekgoela Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) have all been asked to attend.&nbsp; Sekgoela was not certain whether Telkom and Neotel were invited as well.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will start at 10:00am tomorrow, and will be chaired by ICASA.&nbsp; Sekgoela said that ICASA will issue an official statement after the meeting has been concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=190737\"><strong>ICASA meeting on telecoms costs<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICASA to discuss telecommunications costs with, amoung others, Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and ISPA<\/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-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514"}],"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=9514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}