{"id":58823,"date":"2012-09-03T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=58823"},"modified":"2012-09-03T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:02:06","slug":"uncapped-internet-caused-data-explosion-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/58823-uncapped-internet-caused-data-explosion-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped Internet caused data explosion in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion in data usage has hit South Africa, with managing executive of wholesale and networks at Telkom, Bashier Sallie, reporting an increase of around 2,000 terabits per second (Tbps) to around 12,000Tbps in under two years.<\/p>\n<p>Sallie was addressing a question about video traffic on South African broadband networks as a panelist at SATNAC, an annual event hosted by Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Around 60% of the traffic generated is video traffic, Sallie said.<\/p>\n<p>This tremendous increase in bandwidth usage came after the proliferation of uncapped broadband in South Africa, Sallie noted.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom launched its own uncapped ADSL accounts towards the end of September 2011 after Mweb set the South African ADSL market on fire by launching affordable uncapped accounts.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Free uncapped ADSL upgrades from Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/58047-free-uncapped-adsl-upgrades-from-telkom.html\"><strong>Free uncapped ADSL upgrades from Telkom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom uncapped ADSL: All the details\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/35030-telkom-uncapped-adsl-all-the-details.html\"><strong>Telkom uncapped ADSL: All the details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uncapped ADSL a hit, says Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/52119-uncapped-adsl-a-hit-says-telkom.html\"><strong>Uncapped ADSL a hit, says Telkom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ADSL uncapped at R219 per month\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/11816-adsl-uncapped-at-r219-per-month.html\"><strong>ADSL uncapped at R219 per month<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uncapped, unshaped ADSL with Internet TV\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/58203-uncapped-unshaped-adsl-with-internet-tv.html\"><strong>Uncapped, unshaped ADSL with Internet TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Jan Vermeulen is a guest of Telkom at SATNAC 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom wholesale has seen a dramatic increase in bandwidth usage in the last two years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":34026,"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":[4],"tags":[221,3912,35,15027,15037,109,219],"class_list":["post-58823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-bandwidth","tag-bashier-sallie","tag-headline","tag-satnac-2012","tag-streaming-video","tag-telkom","tag-uncapped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58867,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823\/revisions\/58867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}