{"id":19922,"date":"2011-05-03T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:04:00","slug":"mweb-ready-for-uncapped-1mbps-adsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/19922-mweb-ready-for-uncapped-1mbps-adsl.html","title":{"rendered":"MWEB ready for uncapped 1Mbps ADSL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> looks set to <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/19910-Telkom-ADSL-Cap-Management-service-launched.html\">upgrade their 512Kbps ADSL subscribers  to 1Mbps<\/a> in the coming weeks. Telkom would only confirm that the upgrades are  indeed on the table, but industry players have confirmed that they expect this  upgrade soon.<\/p>\n<p>It is also predicted that  Telkom will keep the price of their planned 1Mbps ADSL service the same as  their DSL512 pricing of R326 per month.<\/p>\n<p>While ADSL access prices will most likely stay the same,  current 512Kbps ADSL subscribers using uncapped accounts will have to fork out  extra money if they plan to bump up their ISP account speeds as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307435-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> and others are currently only offering uncapped  512Kbps ADSL accounts, and will have to develop new 1Mbps accounts when the  Telkom upgrades kick in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226947-MWeb\">MWEB<\/a> is however better positioned as they already have a  1Mbps uncapped ISP account.&nbsp; MWEB&rsquo;s 1Mbps uncapped ADSL product is priced  at R369 per month, slightly more expensive than their 512Kbps  service which costs R299 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The final pricing of the bundled 1Mbps  uncapped account and ADSL access will only be released once there is certainty  about Telkom&rsquo;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB ISP CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226207-Derek-Hershaw\">Derek Hershaw<\/a> explained that  they will offer subscribers the option of keeping their 512Kbps uncapped  account or upgrade to their 1Mbps offering.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the customer&rsquo;s price does not change  then we will automatically migrate them to the most favourable option. If there  is a pricing decision to be made by the customer we will present them with the  options and let them choose,&rdquo; explains Hershaw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/331338-MWEB-is-ready-to-offer-1Mbps-ADSL\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MWEB ready for uncapped 1Mbps ADSL\"><strong>MWEB ready for uncapped 1Mbps ADSL<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom looks set to bump up DSL512 speeds to 1Mbps, and MWEB customers will be ready to benefit from the higher speeds<\/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-19922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922"}],"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=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}