{"id":625,"date":"2007-07-13T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-13T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T05:38:00","slug":"all-inclusive-adsl-prices-start-to-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/625-all-inclusive-adsl-prices-start-to-plummet.html","title":{"rendered":"All-inclusive ADSL prices start to plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Combined price ADSL price reductions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Telkom has recently announced that they will cut the price of their Do Broadband Level 1 package in August from R 279-00 per month to R 199-00 per month. This service includes the DSL 384 access charge and carries a 1 GB monthly usage allowance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the small margins associated with this service, various ISPs followed suit and are now undercutting Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB, one of the first large ISPs to introduce a special offer taking advantage of the new pricing, are retailing their &lsquo;all inclusive ADSL service up to 384K&rsquo; for R179-00 per month. <\/p>\n<p>The price of R 179-00 is applicable for the first six months and &ndash; like Telkom&rsquo;s offer &#8211; includes the DSL 384 access charge and a 1 GB monthly usage allowance. The price thereafter is R 219-00 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The R 179-00 special offer from MWEB is only available to subscribers who sign a 12 month contract, which means that the total cost for the service for the full contract period is R 2388-00 or an average of R 199-00 per month.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the same as what Telkom charges for their Do Broadband Level 1 product which also offers a 1 GB usage allowance on a DSL 384 connection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lowest of them all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Cybersmart launched a similar product &ndash; which includes the 384 DSL circuit plus 1 GB of usage &ndash; for R 169-00 per month. This service comes with a free 4 port router supplied by Cybersmart and no contract term is required to qualify for this offer.<\/p>\n<p>This R 169-00 all-inclusive price from Cybersmart is significantly less than the current R 245-00 for the DSL 384 access portion alone and close to the reduced rate of R152-00 per month which will kick in beginning of August.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of easy-to-understand, single-price ADSL services are starting to emerge, and despite the problems regarding low usage limits, it is encouraging news that the price for ADSL has finally reached the sub-R 200-00 level. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=81094\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISPs are starting to significantly reduced their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcall-inclusive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ADSL rates with various offerings breaking the R 200-00 barrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}