{"id":128302,"date":"2015-06-04T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=128302"},"modified":"2015-06-04T20:31:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:31:06","slug":"telkom-r599-uncapped-lte-fair-use-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/128302-telkom-r599-uncapped-lte-fair-use-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom R599 uncapped LTE fair use policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom recently announced that it will launch\u00a0promotional uncapped high-speed wireless broadband packages for R599 per month from 10 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the\u00a0terms and conditions, a \u201cnormal fair usage policy\u201d would apply to these accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said\u00a0the\u00a0terms and conditions protect its clients and network infrastructure from the excessive usage of a few users.<\/p>\n<p>It will impose the following restrictions on what it called \u201cbandwidth-intensive protocols or applications\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50GB threshold, with affected protocols throttled to 128kbps thereafter.<\/li>\n<li>Throttling due to cap depletion will occur during peak network periods, from 6pm to 12am.<\/li>\n<li>Subscribers may not provide network services from their account (for example, you may not use your account to operate as an FTP server).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These bandwidth-intensive protocols and applications were defined as BitTorrent, application to application traffic, application to server traffic, and news servers (NNTP).<\/p>\n<p>It will also limit the number of uncapped users to 150 per base station to ensure the quality of service remains high.<\/p>\n<p>The introductory offer will start at R599 for the first 50 customers, R699 for the second 50, and R799 for the final 50 available packages at each base station.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Telkom news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/128254-uncapped-lte-for-r599-per-month-from-telkom.html\"><strong>Uncapped LTE for R599 per month from Telkom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/127210-is-telkom-lte-a-as-good-as-fibre-broadband.html\"><strong>Is Telkom LTE-A as good as fibre broadband?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/126848-telkom-lte-advanced-broadband-network-tested.html\"><strong>Telkom LTE Advanced broadband network tested<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, mass downloading will be limited on Telkom\u2019s new uncapped wireless data deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":113011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18116,109],"class_list":["post-128302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128302"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128312,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128302\/revisions\/128312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}