{"id":27957,"date":"2011-07-01T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2011-07-01T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:01:48","slug":"big-data-bonus-for-telkom-internet-adsl-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/27957-big-data-bonus-for-telkom-internet-adsl-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Big data bonus for Telkom Internet ADSL users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom recently announced that their <a title=\"Telkom ADSL Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/27821-telkom%E2%80%99s-new-adsl-prices-unpacked.html\">Do Broadband and Telkom Internet<\/a> subscribers on 5GB and 9GB data bundles can expect an extra 1GB of data from July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is however set to give their subscribers an early Christmas present by boosting ADSL data bundle sizes significantly for the next two months.<\/p>\n<p>According to information received by MyBroadband, Telkom Internet subscribers will get between 4GB and 11GB of free data in July and August. The planned data bonuses are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>1GB subscribers will get 5GB<\/li>\n<li>5GB subscribers will get 10GB<\/li>\n<li>9GB subscribers will get 20GB<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These new data bundle sizes will be available for the next two months only and will apply to both existing and new subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom subscribers confirmed that their daily CAP report from Telkom showed the higher monthly usage limits.<\/p>\n<p>At R239.00 per month for 20GB (R11.95 per GB) this special promotion by Telkom provides better value for money than most other ADSL ISP products available.<\/p>\n<p>The low end R79.00 for 5GB, which translates into R15.80 per GB, also compares favourably with competing offerings such as MWEB\u2019s 3GB for R79 or Afrihost\u2019s 5GB for R95.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom was contacted for comment, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom Internet ADSL subscribers will get up to 20GB of data to use in July and August 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27959,"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":[71,1765,35,213,109,1763],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-adsl-2","tag-axxess","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957"}],"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=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27979,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions\/27979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}