{"id":54597,"date":"2012-07-12T22:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=54597"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T08:18:02","slug":"uncapped-adsl-now-the-norm-mweb-isp-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/54597-uncapped-adsl-now-the-norm-mweb-isp-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped ADSL now the norm: MWEB ISP CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncapped ADSL has become the norm in South Africa, with the majority of new sales at MWEB being for uncapped ADSL products.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw told MyBroadband that uncapped ADSL has become the norm, highlighting that just under 90% of their new sales are for uncapped ADSL services.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a continued migration from capped to uncapped services. &#8220;We move about 2,000 of our customers from capped to uncapped every month,&#8221; said Hershaw.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB stunned the local broadband market when it launched the country&#8217;s first affordable uncapped ADSL services in March 2010. Since then uncapped ADSL has become commonplace, and even Telkom has launched affordable uncapped products.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, a few industry players tried to downplay the relevance of uncapped ADSL services, with some even predicting that uncapped broadband services were not sustainable. To date they have been proven wrong.<\/p>\n<p>All the prominent South African ISPs, including MWEB, Afrihost, Web Africa, and Vox Telecom, have indicated that uncapped products are popular and that their clients see value in these products.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25365\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/25359-mweb-adsl-and-open-peering.html\/attachment\/derek_hershaw\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25365\" title=\"Derek Hershaw\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/derek_hershaw.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Hershaw\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/derek_hershaw.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/derek_hershaw-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/derek_hershaw-185x106.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Hershaw &#8211; MWEB ISP MD<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"R59 uncapped ADSL bolt-on special\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/54513-r59-uncapped-adsl-bolt-on-special.html\"><strong>R59 uncapped ADSL bolt-on special<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uncapped business ADSL pricing comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/53671-uncapped-business-adsl-pricing-comparison-2.html\"><strong>Uncapped business ADSL pricing comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Afrihost 10Mbps uncapped ADSL Home account review\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/53529-afrihost-10mbps-uncapped-adsl-home-account-review.html\"><strong>Afrihost 10Mbps uncapped ADSL Home account review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40160-sas-top-adsl-isp-revealed.html\">SA\u2019s top ADSL ISP revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Uncapped ADSL bundle pricing comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/51947-uncapped-adsl-bundle-pricing-comparison.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uncapped ADSL bundle pricing comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB\u2019s latest ADSL subscriber numbers show that uncapped ADSL has become the norm in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":54043,"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":[1669,559,35,213,49,329],"class_list":["post-54597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-derek-hershaw","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-vox-telecom","tag-web-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54597"}],"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=54597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54615,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54597\/revisions\/54615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}