{"id":549844,"date":"2006-08-15T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T10:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549844-massive-dsl-price-cuts.html"},"modified":"2006-08-15T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T10:21:43","slug":"massive-dsl-price-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549844-massive-dsl-price-cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive DSL price cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">According to the research firm Point-Topic the average price for DSL entry level services fell by 9.3% in the second quarter of 2006. Among the 18 DSL operators included in Point Topic\u2019s tariff benchmark survey, 5 of them (primarily in North America and EMEA) reduced their monthly tariffs by up to 50%. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Bell Canada was the only operator to increase its entry level package by 16.9%. This is due to a service upgrade of its 256Kbps BASIC package to a faster 1Mbps download speed. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Overall, the average DSL monthly tariff was US$27.44, or R 189-00, with Chunghwa (Taiwan) still rated as the cheapest DSL provider. The surveyed DSL services are generally uncapped with speeds exceeding 1 Mbps.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom announced a reduction of 24 % in its ADSL access charges earlier this year, the first such reduction since the end of 2005. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This reduction translated into an effective 12 % reduction as ADSL is a bundled service which includes ADSL access, line rental and ADSL ISP costs.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Telkom\u2019s 1 Mbps DSL service with a 30 GB usage limit will currently cost over R 2400-00 when utilizing a cheap, shaped 30 GB account from a SAIX ISP. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This means that Telkom\u2019s premier service is over 1200 % more expensive than the average in the Point-Topic survey. For an unshaped service this percentage will rise to well above 2000 %.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=50523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second quarter of 2006 saw the biggest drop in DSL prices worldwide since 2002.  With some providers reducing their monthly tariffs by as much as 50% in a single quarter, it makes Telkom\u2019s effective yearly reduction of 12% look miserly.<\/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-549844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549844"}],"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=549844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}