{"id":69468,"date":"2013-01-29T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69468"},"modified":"2013-01-29T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T21:30:31","slug":"uncapped-adsl-telkom-versus-mweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/69468-uncapped-adsl-telkom-versus-mweb.html","title":{"rendered":"Uncapped ADSL: Telkom versus MWEB"},"content":{"rendered":"

MWEB<\/a> announced the launch of its new, cheaper uncapped ADSL products which will be available from 1 February 2013.<\/p>\n

MWEB\u2019s product release follows Telkom<\/a>\u2019s announcement on 24 January 2013 that it will reduce its consumer uncapped ADSL products by up to 40% and will cut the price of its business uncapped products by up to 35%.<\/p>\n

MWEB\u2019s new products will complement its existing Premium Uncapped ADSL product suite.<\/p>\n

The main difference between MWEB\u2019s current uncapped service and its new, cheaper offering is that the new accounts will be throttled with high usage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will monitor usage across these products and reserve the right to throttle the connection speeds of the top percentage of subscribers on these products that generate usage above the average,\u201d said MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hershaw explained that they will maintain a fair service for all their subscribers by implementing throttling on high usage users where applicable (throttled speeds: 2Mbps, 192Kbps; 4Mbps \u2013 256Kbps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telkom in turn said that they are removing day-time restrictions on their uncapped ADSL consumer products.<\/p>\n

This raises the question of how Telkom\u2019s uncapped ADSL prices compare with MWEB\u2019s new rates. The following tables provide an answer to this question.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that MWEB\u2019s 1Mbps and 10Mbps products remain unchanged (and hence were not listed in this comparison).<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Uncapped ADSL prices<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2Mbps standalone<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (throttled)<\/td>\nR239<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom do Uncapped Advanced<\/td>\nR249<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (premium)<\/td>\nR369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4Mbps standalone<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (throttled)<\/td>\nR359<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom do Uncapped Premium<\/td>\nR369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (premium)<\/td>\nR539<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2Mbps bundled (account and ADSL line)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (throttled)<\/td>\nR449<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom do Uncapped Advanced<\/td>\nR459<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (premium)<\/td>\nR599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4Mbps bundled (account and ADSL line)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (throttled)<\/td>\nR689<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom do Uncapped Premium<\/td>\nR699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MWEB (premium)<\/td>\nR899<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

More uncapped ADSL articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n

MWEB launches new, cheaper ADSL packages<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Telkom slashes uncapped ADSL prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Telkom uncaps its capped ADSL accounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Telkom 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL prices and launch details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s two largest consumer ISPs have recently made big pricing announcement regarding their uncapped ADSL products. This is how their prices compare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36192,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,35,213,109],"class_list":["post-69468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-adsl-2","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69468"}],"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=69468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69504,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69468\/revisions\/69504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}