{"id":71114,"date":"2015-01-03T06:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71114"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T04:54:54","slug":"sas-broadband-speeds-2002-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71114-sas-broadband-speeds-2002-2014","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s broadband speeds: 2002 &#8211; 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 December 2014 Telkom launched its long-awaited 100Mbps fibre-to-the-home service \u2013 the fastest fixed broadband offering\u00a0from the company.<\/p>\n<p>This followed the launch of commercial LTE Advanced products from Telkom, which offer speeds of up to 150Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>With current broadband speeds of 100Mbps and higher it is easy to forget that 512kbps used to be the highest possible speed a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure we don&#8217;t take these new speeds for granted, let&#8217;s take a look back at some of South Africa&#8217;s fixed broadband highlights over the last twelve years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>August 2002 \u2013 Telkom launches 512kbps ADSL<\/li>\n<li>April 2005 \u2013 Telkom launches 1Mbps ADSL<\/li>\n<li>September 2006 \u2013 Telkom launches 4Mbps ADSL<\/li>\n<li>August 2010 \u2013 Telkom launches 10Mbps ADSL<\/li>\n<li>March 2013 \u2013 Telkom launches 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL<\/li>\n<li>December 2014 \u2013 Telkom launches 100Mbps fibre-to-the-home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some of the mobile broadband highlights over the last decade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 2004 \u2013 Vodacom launches 384kbps 3G<\/li>\n<li>March 2006 \u2013 Vodacom launches 1.8Mbps HSDPA<\/li>\n<li>January 2008 \u2013 Vodacom launches 3.6Mbps HSDPA<\/li>\n<li>April 2009 \u2013 Vodacom launches 7.2Mbps HSPA<\/li>\n<li>March 2010 \u2013 Vodacom launches 14.4Mbps HSPA<\/li>\n<li>September 2010 \u2013 Cell C launches 21Mbps HSPA+<\/li>\n<li>February 2011 \u2013 Vodacom launches 42Mbps HSPA+<\/li>\n<li>October 2012 \u2013 Vodacom launches 100Mbps LTE<\/li>\n<li>November 2014 \u2013 Telkom launches 150Mbps LTE Advanced<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other noteworthy broadband developments in South Africa include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 2004: iBurst launches 1Mbps iBurst Wireless service<\/li>\n<li>May 2008: Neotel launches 2.4Mbps NeoConnect service<\/li>\n<li>January 2009: Neotel launches 3.1Mbps NeoFlex service<\/li>\n<li>July 2010: Neotel launches 8Mbps uncapped WiMax<\/li>\n<li>August 2013: Smart Village launches 40Mbps fibre-to-the-home<\/li>\n<li>October 2014: Vumatel launches 1Gbps fibre-to-the-home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following graph shows how broadband speeds changed from 2002 to 2014. It should be noted that only residential services from large broadband providers are included.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the excluded services include Vumatel\u2019s 1Gbps fibre-to-the-home product in Parkhurst, and Neotel\u2019s business fibre products.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_115233\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/South-African-broadband-speeds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115233\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/South-African-broadband-speeds.jpg\" alt=\"South African broadband speeds\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South African broadband speeds<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/\"><em><strong>Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/70990-the-best-pc-exclusives-around.html\">The best PC exclusives around<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/70836-all-wii-haters-this-is-what-you-missed-out-on.html\">All Wii haters: this is what you missed out on<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70982-best-games-of-2014.html\">Best games of 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 December 2014 Telkom launched its long-awaited 100Mbps fibre-to-the-home service \u2013 the fastest fixed broadband offering from the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":66461,"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":[20],"tags":[293,2932,21,287],"class_list":["post-71114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-adsl","tag-ftth","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71114","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=71114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71129,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71114\/revisions\/71129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}