{"id":547519,"date":"2005-12-14T00:33:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T00:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547519-broadband-at-r61-00-per-year.html"},"modified":"2005-12-14T00:33:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T00:33:39","slug":"broadband-at-r61-00-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547519-broadband-at-r61-00-per-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband at R61-00 per year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Users also have the option of joining per quarter for Rs200.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Once subscribers have paid their once off annual joining fee they pay per usage much like the pre-paid model used by cellular providers in South Africa for voice transmissions.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Business and heavy users are given the option of unlimited bandwidth with what In2cable call \u2018competitively priced MB plans\u2019.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In2cable\u2019s pay as you use product is available in Cablenet and to independent operators.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">With prices like these and other international offerings it is surprising that Telkom\u2019s Steven White would say that a significant reduction in their prices is not doable. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">If one considers that Telkom\u2019s ADSL access charge (without an ISP account) on their DSL1024 service is 300% more expensive than all-inclusive, unlimited 24 Mbps offerings in Europe or Asia it becomes clear that something is amiss.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These companies must surely also maintain these services, invest in new infrastructure and supply customers with support. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Local Loop Unbundling and fair SAT3 access is more important than ever to ensure a competitive ADSL environment. Such changes will allow companies like Internet Solutions, UUNet and DataPro to truly enter the market and compete more effectively with Telkom.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=33813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In2Cable, an Indian Internet and telephony provider, is offering \u2018pay as you use\u2019 broadband access for a set-up cost of only Rs450 (R61-00) per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547519"}],"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=547519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}