{"id":20497,"date":"2011-05-25T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:39:04","slug":"telkom-clears-up-adsl-speed-upgrade-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/20497-telkom-clears-up-adsl-speed-upgrade-uncertainty.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom clears up ADSL speed upgrade uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>512Kbps ADSL subscribers across South Africa <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/20112-Telkom-ADSL-speed-upgrades-begin.html\">started  reporting speed upgrades to 1Mbps in early May<\/a>, in line with new Telkom CEO  Pinky Moholi&rsquo;s strategy of adding more value to ADSL subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom would however not officially confirm these upgrades,  and previously ignored requests for information about the higher ADSL speeds.<\/p>\n<p>But the company changed tack today and confirmed details about the  speed upgrades after MWEB sent out a press  statement about their free uncapped ADSL package upgrades (on the back of  Telkom&rsquo;s 512Kbps to 1Mbps upgrades).<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that they began the upgrades of the 512kpbs ADSL subscribers to 1Mbps on 1 May  2011, and have already completed most of the  line conversions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Certain subscribers could not be upgraded due to system  constraints. Telkom will attend to these subscribers during the month of June  2011, where network conditions allow. Telkom will continue the upgrades on an  ongoing basis,&rdquo; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom also dismissed previous reports emanating from the  company that the upgrades form part of a trial.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is not a trial. All upgrades will apply nationally  where conditions allow. The upgrades will continue on an ongoing basis and is  not subject to the results of any trial,&rdquo; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom further confirmed that all upgrades have been carried  out at no additional fee to the subscriber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/337539-Telkom-ADSL-speed-upgrade-details\"><strong>Telkom ADSL speed upgrades<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom today confirmed that they are actively upgrading ADSL speeds at no cost to subscribers<\/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-20497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497"}],"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=20497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}