{"id":12699,"date":"2011-07-01T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"telkom-internet-adsl-users-receive-data-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12699-telkom-internet-adsl-users-receive-data-bonuses","title":{"rendered":"Telkom Internet ADSL users receive data bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom recently announced that their <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/27821-telkom%E2%80%99s-new-adsl-prices-unpacked.html\" title=\"Telkom ADSL Prices\">Do Broadband and Telkom Internet<\/a> subscribers on 5GB and 9GB data bundles can expect an extra 1GB of data from July 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is however set to give their subscribers an early Christmas  present by boosting ADSL data bundle sizes significantly for the next  two months.<\/p>\n<p>According to information received by MyBroadband, Telkom Internet  subscribers will get between 4GB and 11GB of free data in July and  August. The planned data bonuses are as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>1GB subscribers will get 5GB<\/li>\n<li>5GB subscribers will get 10GB<\/li>\n<li>9GB subscribers will get 20GB<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These new data bundle sizes will be available for the next two months only and will apply to both existing and new subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom subscribers confirmed that their daily CAP report from Telkom showed the higher monthly usage limits.<\/p>\n<p>At R239.00 per month for 20GB (R11.95 per GB) this special promotion  by Telkom provides better value for money than most other ADSL ISP  products available.<\/p>\n<p>The low end R79.00 for 5GB, which translates into R15.80 per GB, also  compares favourably with competing offerings such as MWEB&rsquo;s 3GB for R79  or Afrihost&rsquo;s 5GB for R95.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom was contacted for comment, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15309-Telkom-Internet-ADSL-users-receive-bonus-data\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Telkom Internet ADSL users receive data bonuses\"><strong>Telkom Internet ADSL users receive data bonuses<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article courtesy of MyBroadband &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/27957-big-data-bonus-for-telkom-internet-adsl-users.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Big data bonus for Telkom Internet ADSL users\">Big data bonus for Telkom Internet ADSL users<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom Internet ADSL subscribers will get up to 20GB of data to use in July and August 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}