{"id":39731,"date":"2012-06-14T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T13:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39731"},"modified":"2012-06-15T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:27:53","slug":"adsl-capped-data-prices-on-downward-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39731-adsl-capped-data-prices-on-downward-slide","title":{"rendered":"ADSL capped data prices on downward slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Openweb\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226986-Openweb\">Openweb<\/a> has launched two new capped, unshaped data packages with pricing of well below R10 per GB.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement by Openweb follows numerous <a title=\"ADSL - Asymmetric digital subscriber line\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23886-ADSL-Asymmetric-digital-subscriber-line\">ADSL<\/a> data price cuts from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) after Telkom reduced their ADSL wholesale rates by 30% in April 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Openweb\u2019s newly launched special packages are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30GB Capped Unshaped for R199 (R6.63 per GB)<\/li>\n<li>50GB Capped Unshaped for R300 (R6 per GB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Openweb founder <a title=\"Keoma Wright\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/301363-Keoma-Wright\">Keoma Wright<\/a> highlighted that the accounts allow 4 concurrent connections, but warned that existing clients cannot downgrade or cancel their current account to sign up for this new offer.<\/p>\n<p>This pricing from Openweb compares well with other service providers. Afrihost is currently selling 15GB of data at R190 and 50GB of data for R399. Telkom\u2019s 20GB data package is priced at R239 and the company\u2019s 40GB data bundle costs R630.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article courtesy of MyBroadband &#8211; <strong><a title=\"ADSL capped data prices plummet\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/52613-adsl-capped-data-prices-plummet.html\" target=\"_blank\">ADSL capped data prices plummet<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom ADSL price increase, speed upgrade details\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/52299-telkom-adsl-price-increase-speed-upgrade-details.html\"><strong>Telkom ADSL price increase, speed upgrade details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom free ADSL speed upgrades confirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/51611-telkom-free-adsl-speed-upgrades-confirmed.html\"><strong>Telkom free ADSL speed upgrades confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uncapped ADSL bundle pricing comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/51947-uncapped-adsl-bundle-pricing-comparison.html\"><strong>Uncapped ADSL bundle pricing comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom 40Mbps ADSL upgrades coming\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/52105-telkom-40mbps-adsl-upgrades-coming.html\"><strong>Telkom 40Mbps ADSL upgrades coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of capped ADSL data products continue to decline, with per-GB prices plummeting to below R10 per GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":33969,"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":[2],"tags":[31,293,2289,3334,2775,287],"class_list":["post-39731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-keoma-wright","tag-openweb","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39733,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731\/revisions\/39733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}