{"id":51455,"date":"2012-06-04T23:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=51455"},"modified":"2012-06-04T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T21:57:42","slug":"broadband-prices-compared-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/51455-broadband-prices-compared-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband prices compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Point Topic<\/a> recently unveiled their broadband tariff benchmarks report for the first quarter of 2012, revealing that DSL<\/a> is slower and more expensive (per Mbps) than cable and fibre.<\/p>\n

Point Topic\u2019s broadband tariff benchmarks report compared the highest, lowest and average subscription charges and corresponding bandwidths by technology across the world. The report focuses on DSL, cable and fibre connections.<\/p>\n

According to the report, cable connections are on average the cheapest service both for residential and business offerings. However, fibre is the most cost effective service in terms of the amount the residential consumer pays per bit.<\/p>\n

Average bandwidth by technology<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the report, Fibre continues to dominate in \u201cheadline bandwidths on offer\u201d, with peak average advertised speeds of between 30Mbps and 140Mbps.<\/p>\n

The average advertised DSL speeds globally ranged between 4Mbps and 12Mbps. This is higher than South Africa\u2019s offerings, which range between 384kbps and 10Mbps.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average broadband speed by technology<\/p><\/div>\n

Average price per megabit<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the report, pricing for DSL continues to be driven by its positioning as a low entry cost service.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a consumer is going to be using a significant amount of bandwidth over a certain proportion of the rental period, cable and fibre services, where available, would be a more rational choice,\u201d said Point Topic.<\/p>\n

\u201cReductions in pricing per megabit for cable and fibre are driven by increases in the headline bandwidth on offer rather than changes in monthly subscription rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average cost per Mbps<\/p><\/div>\n

Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

ADSL versus FTTH battle in SA emerging<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Telkom ADSL speed upgrades on track<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA breaks 3Mbps broadband average<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Broadband speeds: South Africa versus Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Broadband value in SA improving, but only a little<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Point Topic\u2019s broadband tariff benchmarks report reveals how broadband prices compare based on technology and region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":28628,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[44,35,2618],"class_list":["post-51455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-2","tag-headline","tag-point-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51455"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51497,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51455\/revisions\/51497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}