8 Mbps uncapped ADSL
An uncapped ADSL price war has erupted after MWEB announced their affordable uncapped ADSL services on Thursday last week.
Since then Vox Telecom – through @lantic – and Afrihost launched their own uncapped offerings, undercutting the price levels set by MWEB’s uncapped rates.
All of these Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are offering 384 Kbps, 512 Kbps and 4 Mbps uncapped ADSL services, but questions started emerging whether consumers can expect 8 Mbps uncapped offerings when Telkom starts upgrading their broadband speeds.
Telkom said earlier this year that they are planning to bump up their top ADSL speeds from 4 Mbps to at least 8 Mbps (and even 10 Mbps or 12 Mbps depending on trial results) in the next few weeks.
8 Mbps uncapped ADSL
Afrihost has already launched details about their future 8 Mbps uncapped ADSL service. The ISP revealed that it will offer an uncapped ‘8192 Kbps’ service at R997 per month.
MWEB CEO Rudi Jansen said that consumers can definitely expect an 8 Mbps uncapped offering from them when Telkom starts upgrading their current 4 Mbps ADSL lines.
Jansen added that an 8 Mbps uncapped service will rely on infrastructure upgrades and high bandwidth allocations, but assured customers that that MWEB will do what is needed to ensure high service levels.
SAINET said that they are currently in an assessment phase with regards to 8Mbps ADSL to determine the impact on their IPConnect (IPC) link from Telkom.
According to Marius Oberholzer, CEO of IPINX which supplies SAINET with their IPC based ADSL service, their IPC connection is currently the biggest contention point on their ADSL network.
Telkom has not committed to an 8 Mbps ADSL upgrade date yet, but the company did say that it hopes to start doing the first set of speed upgrades in April/May.
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