{"id":207938,"date":"2017-04-23T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=207938"},"modified":"2017-04-23T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:59:48","slug":"the-problem-with-adsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/207938-the-problem-with-adsl.html","title":{"rendered":"The problem with ADSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afrihost recently launched<\/strong><\/a> capped fibre products for subscribers, augmenting its existing uncapped fibre range.<\/p>\n

The capped packages are available on multiple fibre networks, and were announced soon after the ISP revealed it was doing away<\/a><\/strong> with small-cap ADSL accounts.<\/p>\n

Afrihost said\u00a0cheaper DSL options – when all cost factors were taken into account – were costing the company money.<\/p>\n

Despite the axing of the lower-end capped products, Afrihost believes that capped accounts will always play a role in the market.<\/p>\n

“We see data caps increasing as upstream costs decrease and economies of scale make it possible for us to offer clients more broadband for a minimum fee that allows us to cover administrative costs,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n

A driving force behind the need for larger caps is increased line speeds, which Afrihost sees ramping up as fibre continues to roll out.<\/p>\n

“We expect to see DSL lines continue to dominate fixed-line broadband for the immediate future, but we do expect fibre roll-out to accelerate as more providers join the market.”<\/p>\n

“While we see many users going for lower speeds on fibre – 20Mbps and 50Mbps – we predict they will upgrade in the future, especially as more users embrace media streaming and cloud-based services.”<\/p>\n

“As users upgrade their speeds, we\u2019ll also see data caps increasing,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n

The problem with ADSL<\/h3>\n

Afrihost said it faced several challenges in its mission to deliver high-speed, affordable bandwidth across DSL and fibre networks.<\/p>\n

“In terms of DSL, the biggest challenge is still the limitations posed by Openserve\u2019s infrastructure, in terms of cost, maintenance, and demand,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n

“Naked DSL and local loop unbundling could help stimulate the market and improve services.”<\/p>\n

For fibre, the main challenge was\u00a0the “rate of roll-out”. This is “dependant on lengthy council approval processes”, it said.<\/p>\n

“A government intervention to fast-track this process could help to speed up installations and get more people onto fibre, which could relieve some pressure on Openserve\u2019s DSL infrastructure,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Afrihost is “very happy” with the uptake of its fibre packages so far.<\/p>\n

“We were initially cautious in entering the market, and this approach helped us to streamline our processes to facilitate smooth-running orders and installations.”<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re now seeing a massive increase in sign-ups, as more clients get access to fibre in their areas and in response to our competitive offerings.”<\/p>\n

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MyBroadband spoke to Afrihost about the future of ADSL and fibre in South Africa, and capped data accounts on its network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340966,"featured_media":142232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1669,35],"class_list":["post-207938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207938"}],"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\/340966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}