{"id":85943,"date":"2013-09-03T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=85943"},"modified":"2013-09-03T10:03:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T08:03:19","slug":"telkom-capped-adsl-value-boost-isps-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/85943-telkom-capped-adsl-value-boost-isps-respond.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom capped ADSL value boost: ISPs respond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telkom<\/a> Internet announced that its capped ADSL account holders will get free anytime data for specific social networking services, and zero rated data between 00:00 and 06:00 daily.<\/p>\n

Telkom Internet will also double the monthly usage limit of all its data packages of 5GB or more free of charge.<\/p>\n

The Telkom Internet ADSL promotion, which runs from 1 September 2013 to 31 March 2014, puts pressure on competing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to respond.<\/p>\n

However, with margins already razor thin in the ADSL market, it can be challenging for service providers to match Telkom Internet\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n

Here is what South Africa\u2019s prominent ISPs said about their plans following Telkom Internet\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

MWEB ISP CEO Derek Hershaw<\/h3>\n

MWEB<\/a> ISP CEO Derek Hershaw<\/a> said that they have no immediate plans to change anything related to their capped ADSL products.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recently upgraded all our 3Gig capped customers to 5Gigs, at no extra cost and this was a permanent upgrade, not a promotional offer,\u201d said Hershaw.<\/p>\n

Afrihost CEO Gian Visser<\/h3>\n

Afrihost<\/a> CEO Gian Visser<\/a> said that they are always looking to add real value to their capped ADSL clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our aim to bring the most affordable ADSL to our clients and to make sure we lead the charge in ensuring cheaper broadband for South Africa,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will definitely be adding even more value to our capped ADSL products very soon,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n

Openweb CEO Keoma Wright<\/h3>\n

Openweb<\/a> CEO Keoma Wright<\/a> said that they are currently re-looking their capped ADSL solutions, and will make an announcement about their plans soon.<\/p>\n

Cybersmart CEO Laurie Fialkov<\/h3>\n

Cybersmart<\/a> CEO Laurie Fialkov<\/a> said that their subscribers can expect far better value for money from them in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsers will be able to supersize any capped account, which give them far higher data caps\u201d Fialkov said.<\/p>\n

Capped ADSL articles<\/h3>\n

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Telkom doubled the usage limit on their capped ADSL accounts, and is giving away lots of zero rated data \u2013 here is what other ISPs say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83599,"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":[71,1669,2954,35,213,1261,109,1763],"class_list":["post-85943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adsl","tag-adsl-2","tag-afrihost","tag-cybersmart","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-openweb","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85943"}],"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=85943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85951,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85943\/revisions\/85951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}