{"id":846925,"date":"2024-08-22T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=846925"},"modified":"2024-08-22T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:34:01","slug":"south-africas-telco-industry-calls-for-tech-firms-to-help-fund-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/22\/south-africas-telco-industry-calls-for-tech-firms-to-help-fund-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s telco industry calls for tech firms to help fund infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s telecoms industry body is pushing for digital content and service providers to help pay for the roll out of network infrastructure because they generate a huge part of the internet traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi said that the revenues generated by over-the-top (OTT) platforms and the continued success of the OTT model was dependent on the availability of high-quality, reliable and efficient network infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8220;what we&#8217;re saying is that the OTTs should contribute towards the network upgrades, the network building,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: South Africa&#8217;s telecoms industry body is pushing for digital content and service providers to help pay for the roll out of network infrastructure because they generate a huge part of the internet traffic. The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi said that the revenues generated by over-the-top (OTT) platforms and the continued success of the OTT model was dependent on the availability of high-quality, reliable and efficient network infrastructure. So &#8220;what we&#8217;re saying is that the OTTs should contribute towards the network upgrades, the network building,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}