{"id":58542,"date":"2013-09-20T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58542"},"modified":"2013-09-20T09:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:38:14","slug":"telkom-adsl-speed-upgrades-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/58542-telkom-adsl-speed-upgrades-for-free","title":{"rendered":"Telkom ADSL speed upgrades for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom announced that it is upgrading the speed of its ADSL products free of charge, starting from November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom\u2019s wholesale division is planning to upgrade its Resell DSL Access offerings as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Up to 1 024 kbps\u2019 will be migrated to \u2018Up to 2 048 kbps\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Up to 2 048 kbps\u2019 will be migrated to \u2018Up to 4 096 kbps\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Up to 4 096\/10 240 kbps\u2019 will be migrated to \u2018Up to 10 240 kbps\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In future, the \u2018Up to 4 096\/10 240 kbps\u2019 product offering will be split into two separate offerings i.e. \u2018Up to 4 096 kbps\u2019 and \u2018Up to 10 240 kbps\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The migration to higher speeds will take place in a phased approach commencing from 11 November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to a planned network freeze over the December 2013\/January 2014 period the upgrade process will be paused and will resume thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the Company\u2019s extensive Network Transformation Programme, deploying our exchange infrastructure closer to businesses and residential customers \u2013 essentially shortening the local loop \u2013 means that we are in a position to increase the performance of ADSL lines,\u201d said Casper Kondo Chihaka, Telkom\u2019s Managing Executive of Wholesale Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will provide customers the ability to burst to potentially higher speeds subject to network conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese speed enhancements will contribute to driving fixed broadband penetration in the South African market as it facilitates the access for ISPs\u2019 customers to rich media content such as video, music and seamless live streaming,\u201d said Mr Chihaka.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More ADSL news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/58524-adsl-price-cuts-on-the-horizon.html\">ADSL price cuts on the horizon?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/58466-cheapest-ever-capped-adsl-prices.html\">Cheapest ever capped ADSL prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/57995-telkom-free-adsl-data-details-emerge.html\">Telkom free ADSL data details emerge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is increasing the speed of all of its ADSL services free of charge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":51082,"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":[293,21,287],"class_list":["post-58542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-adsl","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58542","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=58542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58543,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58542\/revisions\/58543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}