{"id":43352,"date":"2012-08-21T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43352"},"modified":"2012-08-21T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:08:27","slug":"afrihost-10mbps-uncapped-pricing-slashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43352-afrihost-10mbps-uncapped-pricing-slashed","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost 10Mbps uncapped pricing slashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost announced today (21 August 2012) that it has cut the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL service, and has launched a 2Mbps uncapped ADSL product at an aggressive price.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement from Afrihost comes amidst Telkom\u2019s plans to start upgrading its ADSL speeds this week.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom will start upgrading its \u201cUp to 1024kbps\u201d ADSL users to \u201cUp 2048kbps\u201d from 24 August 2012, and will start upgrading its 384kbps ADSL users to 1Mbps from 1 October 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Afrihost uncapped ADSL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afrihost has cut the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL service from the previous R997 to R797 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost has also introduced a new 2Mbps uncapped ADSL product, priced at R297 per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chose to be prudent and await the official roll-out schedule for Telkom&#8217;s upgrades, rather than make an early announcement in line with competitors. In this way we have ensured the best possible prices (and savings) for our clients,\u201d Afrihost said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnbundled ADSL Lines will be automatically upgraded without any change in price. Uncapped clients will have the option of keeping their existing products, or upgrading to the higher speeds,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43024-beware-most-expensive-adsl-for-gaming.html\">Beware: Most expensive ADSL for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/43095-best-mobile-broadband-deals-in-sa.html\">Best mobile broadband deals in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42957-capped-vs-uncapped-adsl-which-is-best-for-gaming.html\">Capped vs uncapped ADSL: which is best for gaming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41781-adsl-vs-wireless-for-gaming-surprising-results.html\">ADSL vs. wireless for gaming: surprising results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42303-big-plans-for-sa-gaming-from-web-africa.html\">Big plans for SA gaming from Web Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42603-great-news-for-sa-gamers-from-afrihost.html\">Great news for SA gamers from Afrihost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42427-uncapped-adsl-speed-upgrade-pricing.html\">Uncapped ADSL speed upgrade pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost has unveiled its new 2Mbps uncapped ADSL service, and has dropped the price of its 10Mbps uncapped product<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":42604,"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":[6342,31,293,2289,297],"class_list":["post-43352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-10mbps-adsl","tag-active","tag-adsl","tag-afrihost","tag-uncapped-adsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352","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=43352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43354,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352\/revisions\/43354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}