{"id":123225,"date":"2018-01-31T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123225"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T08:08:51","slug":"south-african-estates-are-telling-closed-fibre-networks-to-get-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123225-south-african-estates-are-telling-closed-fibre-networks-to-get-lost","title":{"rendered":"South African estates are telling closed fibre networks to get lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gated communities, estates, and business parks in South Africa are taking a \u201chard line\u201d against fibre infrastructure players which do not offer open access networks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is according to ISPA, which stated that people are increasingly\u00a0insisting on open-access fibre installations. Open-access networks allow multiple ISPs to operate on their infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a clear trend towards homeowners\u2019 associations, body corporates, residents\u2019 associations, and property developers rejecting any potential fibre installation that does not allow for multiple Internet service providers to compete for owners\u2019 and tenants\u2019 business,\u201d said Graham Beneke, ISPA chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are doing this because they recognise that open access fibre networks provide the best of high-quality, affordable connectivity for consumers while increasing the value of property in the estate or community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ISPA added that not all\u00a0networks want to \u201cprovide a platform for competition\u201d, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cISPA\u2019s view is that this is not in the best interests of consumers and needs to be addressed to reduce the cost to communicate, poor service levels, and a lack of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/123227-alexas-whisper-mode-rolls-out-to-echo-speakers.html\">Alexa\u2019s Whisper Mode rolls out to Echo speakers<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gated communities, estates, and business parks in South Africa are taking a \u201chard line\u201d against fibre infrastructure players which do not offer open access networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":123211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6587,6703,25676],"class_list":["post-123225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fibre","tag-ispa","tag-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}