iBurst delays iDSL launch
In December last year iBurst announced that it was planning its own custom designed ADSL service aimed partly at the gaming market. Dubbed iDSL, the service includes a value added service called ‘iGame Unlimited’ which will give subscribers unlimited flat-rated access to the iGrame servers at an additional fee of R99 per month.
On all iDSL packages subscribers will also benefit from the same in-bundle and out-of-bundle rates per Gigabyte. Month to month packages of 1 GB, 2 GB, 5 GB, and 8 GB are priced at R49 per GB, 15 GB at R39 per GB with a 60 GB offering costing R29 per GB.
Three weeks ago the company announced that all iBurst iDSL subscribers will have access to the standard iGame platform, and as an introductory launch offer will receive 1 Gigabyte of free gaming bandwidth per month for a period of three months.
At the time iBurst said that it would start testing its iDSL service on 4 February, and planned an official launch of the service on 15 February. The launch date has now been pushed back to 1 March, necessitated by a delay in fibre network access.
“Due to a dependence on a third party we have experienced a delay on the fibre connectivity. Reasons for this include fibre breaks caused by roadworks and operational delays in splicing from the fibre supplier,” said iBurst’s Nicole Monego. “Currently we have a link to the Telkom IPC operational on RF, but would like to go ahead with the official launch with fibre with full redundancy.”
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