{"id":16003,"date":"2010-10-24T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-10T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T10:15:35","slug":"mweb-uncapped-adsl-all-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/16003-mweb-uncapped-adsl-all-the-facts.html","title":{"rendered":"MWEB uncapped ADSL: All the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

MWEB shook up the South African broadband market in March this year when it launched affordable uncapped ADSL accounts.<\/p>\n

These uncapped ADSL accounts enjoyed tremendous take up among existing MWEB subscribers and new MWEB customers, putting pressure on their competitors to also launch aggressively priced services.<\/p>\n

To date the feedback from MWEB\u2019s uncapped ADSL subscribers has been very positive, and unsurprisingly MWEB was awarded the \u2018ISP of the Year\u2019 and the \u2018Broadband Maverick of the Year\u2019 awards at the 2010 MyBroadband Conference.<\/p>\n

Growing bandwidth demands<\/strong><\/p>\n

A capped broadband environment requires far less capacity than an uncapped environment, illustrated by the increased data usage on the MWEB network.<\/p>\n

Before the launch of uncapped ADSL MWEB\u2019s users consumed 282 Terabytes of data per month, but this figure has grown to 2 Petabytes of data per month.<\/p>\n

Considering this massive growth in bandwidth consumption it is hardly surprising that MWEB has grown to become the biggest ADSL IPConnect capacity buyer in the country.<\/p>\n

According to MWEB CEO Rudi Jansen<\/a>\u2019s presentation at the MyBroadband conference, MWEB\u2019s Johannesburg IPC capacity is the largest in the country while its Cape Town IPC has the third largest capacity in the country.<\/p>\n

MWEB\u2019s combined IPC capacity is currently 70% larger than any other ISP in South Africa, which means that MWEB has surpassed Internet Solutions as the biggest IPC buyer in SA.<\/p>\n

The higher IPC capacity however comes at a cost. Jansen showed that bandwidth on international cable systems like SEACOM, which runs for 13 000km, is cheaper than Telkom\u2019s IPC capacity, which is providing local-only bandwidth.<\/p>\n

The high cost of Telkom\u2019s IPC service is essentially creating a pricing and bandwidth bottleneck in an ISPs ADSL network.<\/p>\n

Other interesting facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jansen revealed other interesting facts about MWEB\u2019s ADSL network and operations, including that:<\/p>\n

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  1. 200million emails are received into the network each month<\/li>\n
  2. 80% of all emails are spam and is blocked<\/li>\n
  3. MWEB\u2019s email store holds 13.7 Petabytes of data<\/li>\n
  4. MWEB has two 10 Gbps fibre rings with 9 core nodes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    MWEB has evolved from a basic reseller of ADSL services at fairly high rates to a market leader in terms of uncapped ADSL offering in the local market.<\/p>\n

    This change in direction and strategy from MWEB is clearly visible in their network statistics, and Jensen pointed out that the growth and innovation is sure to continue in future.<\/p>\n

    MWEB uncapped ADSL: All the facts<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ever wondered how much data MWEB uncapped ADSL subscribers use or how much mail traffic the ISP handles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003"}],"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=16003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40961,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16003\/revisions\/40961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}