{"id":11548,"date":"2010-02-21T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-21T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:43:00","slug":"iburst-delays-idsl-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/11548-iburst-delays-idsl-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst delays iDSL launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December last year iBurst announced that it was planning its own <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Broadband\/10798.html\">custom designed ADSL service<\/a> aimed partly at the gaming market.&nbsp; Dubbed iDSL, the service includes a value added service called &lsquo;iGame Unlimited&rsquo; which will give subscribers unlimited flat-rated access to the iGrame servers at an additional fee of R99 per month.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>At the time <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/ADSL\/11317.html\">iBurst said<\/a> that it would start testing its iDSL service on 4 February, and planned an official launch of the service on 15 February.&nbsp; The launch date has now been pushed back to 1 March, necessitated by a delay in fibre network access.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; said iBurst&rsquo;s Nicole Monego.&nbsp; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?217853-iBurst-delays-planned-iDSL-launch\"><strong>iBurst iDSL<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt;&nbsp; discussion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Broadband\/10798.html\">iDSL from R29 per GB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/ADSL\/11317.html\">iBurst ADSL here this month<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New kid on the wholesale ADSL scene peers with major players; new low-cost ADSL services emerge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548"}],"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=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}