{"id":548612,"date":"2006-04-25T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T07:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548612-usage-based-adsl-the-right-way.html"},"modified":"2006-04-25T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T07:54:46","slug":"usage-based-adsl-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548612-usage-based-adsl-the-right-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Usage based ADSL, the right way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vietnam has however managed to introduce a similar usage based pricing system but one which will satisfy most Internet users. Users pay for what they use, with a price differentiation between off-peak and peak hours. There is also a price cap on the service for usage over a certain value. <\/font><\/p>\n

Vietnamnet reports that the charges for off-peak hours (from 7pm to 7am) on the 512Kbps\/256Kbps and 768Kbps\/384Kbps packages are \u2018capped\u2019 at VND27 for the first 3,000 Mb, and VND25 for each following Mb. <\/font><\/p>\n

The total subscription and usage charges will however be capped at VND350,000-VND550,000\/month depending on connection speed. The charges for peak hours are VND45 for the first 3,000 Mb and VND41 for the following Mb, while all-in charges are capped at VND250,000 to VND450,000 per month.<\/font> <\/p>\n

The high VND figures may sound alarming among users who are used to Telkom\u2019s pricing, but in rand terms it is very affordable. 3 000 MB of off-peak data, for example, costs around R 30-00 while the 512 Kbps service\u2019s price cap is a mere R 94-00. This freedom provides for a true broadband experience.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Vietnam is also far ahead of Telkom regarding ADSL service speeds. Their premier service is a 4.096Kbps\/640Kbps ADSL offering which carries a subscription price of R 190-00 and a usage cost of R 0-015 per MB. <\/font><\/p>\n

Capping usage charges is not uncommon internationally, but locally it is very foreign. Telkom is currently using a near linear pricing scale which makes high bandwidth usage very expensive. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Telkom\u2019s usage based ADSL drew a great deal of criticism when it was launched last year, mainly due to the restrictive nature of Telkom\u2019s usage based pricing model.<\/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-548612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548612"}],"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=548612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}