Data prices in South Africa are coming down, and will drop further in the next three years.<\/p>\n
This is according to Pushkar Gokhale, Openserve\u2019s chief strategy officer, who was speaking at the 2017 MyBroadband Conference.<\/p>\n
Gokhale said that although he could not commit to specific figures, current trends show data prics are coming down globally \u2013 and South Africa will be no exception.<\/p>\n
However, demand has to drive prices down, he said.<\/p>\n
In other words, the higher South Africa\u2019s broadband penetration and the more people use broadband services, the cheaper it can become.<\/p>\n
Openserve, the wholesale and networks division of Telkom, has reduced its wholesale fibre and ADSL prices this year.<\/p>\n
It\u00a0reduced IP Connect prices<\/strong><\/a>, which kicked in on 1 August, and said the adjustment will effectively result in a 25% reduction for Internet service providers.<\/p>\n The company also implemented speed increases across its fibre portfolio \u2013 upgrading 2Mbps lines to 4Mbps, and 8Mbps to 10Mbps.<\/p>\n Data prices in South Africa are coming down, and will drop further in the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[25271,6587,2163],"class_list":["post-121687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-data-prices","tag-fibre","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Fibre crushing ADSL in South African rankings<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"