{"id":315,"date":"2007-06-18T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-18T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T08:17:00","slug":"telkom-to-reduce-price-of-closer-adsl-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/315-telkom-to-reduce-price-of-closer-adsl-packages.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom to reduce price of Closer ADSL packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom said that there will be an 18.2 % reduction in ADSL access rates. The DSL 384 access price will be reduced from R 245-00 to R 152-00, a 38 % price reduction. The DSL 512 access price will decrease from R 362-00 to R 326-00 while the 4 Mbps price will be cut from R 516-00 to R 413-00. <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Analogue line rental prices will however increase from R 99-92 to R 111.90, which means that there will be an effective saving of around 15% on the combined ADSL Access and Line Rental charges.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Closer Packages<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Many ADSL customers have opted for Telkom&rsquo;s Closer packages, which allow for unlimited landline calls during callmore time, 1 000 inclusive standard time minutes, savings on cellular calls with pure per-second billing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom&rsquo;s Closer Plan 4, which&nbsp;currently costs R 499-00 per month, will be reduced to R 429-00 per month on the 1st of August.&nbsp; This plan includes DSL 384 access with the standard closer benefits.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom&rsquo;s Closer Plan 5, which includes DSL 4 Mbps access in addition to all the Closer 3 benefits, will be reduced from R 699-00 to R 651-00.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The new prices are subject to approval by the telecommunication industry&rsquo;s regulator &#8211; Icasa.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=78544\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced that they are reducing their ADSL prices, and added that their Closer Plan 4 and Closer Plan 5 customers will also benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}