{"id":73467,"date":"2015-03-22T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73467"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:58:45","slug":"1gbps-uncapped-fibre-for-the-same-price-as-a-ps4-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/73467-1gbps-uncapped-fibre-for-the-same-price-as-a-ps4-game","title":{"rendered":"1Gbps uncapped fibre for the same price as a PS4 game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"123NET\" href=\"https:\/\/123net.co.za\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>123NET<\/strong><\/a> has unveiled its planned fibre-to-the-home prices, which include a 1Gbps uncapped FTTH product for R799 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Last week <a title=\"123NET FTTH\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/121288-new-fibre-to-the-home-player-with-1gbps-plans.html\"><strong>123 Internetworks (123NET) announced that<\/strong><\/a> it was preparing to roll out fibre services to homes and businesses in KwaZulu-Natal and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>123Net CEO Kalin Bogatzevski said their aim is to provide ultra-fast Internet access to South Africans, which includes a 1Gbps services.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now unveiled its planned FTTH prices, and it is better than anything seen in South Africa before.<\/p>\n<p>123NET is planning three residential services, with prices ranging between R300 per month and R1,999 per month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5Mbps (1Mbps upload) FTTH<\/strong> with uncapped data \u2013 <strong>R300 per month<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1Gbps FTTH (10Mbps international)<\/strong> with uncapped data \u2013 <strong>R799 per month<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>1Gbps FTTH (100Mbps international)<\/strong> with uncapped data \u2013 <strong>R1,999 per month<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also the option to pay a once-off fee of R3,600 for the 5Mbps service, and then receive full, uncapped access free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Bogatzevski explained that all their plans come with uncapped data &#8211; the only limits are for the international bandwidth speeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not limit the speed to any South African IP network,\u201d said Bogatzevski. \u201cSubscribers will be able to use the maximum possible bandwidth [1Gbps] that the remote site can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that these FTTH plans will be available to all 123NET subscribers, independent of their location.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyBroadband\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/122014-1gbps-uncapped-fibre-to-the-home-for-r799.html\"><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\/features\/73439-borderlands-the-handsome-collection-pre-order-price-roundup.html\">Borderlands: The Handsome Collection pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/73417-5-overlooked-games-from-2014.html\">5 overlooked games from 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/73435-worlds-fastest-graphics-card-gets-sa-price-tag.html\">World\u2019s fastest graphics card gets SA price tag<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fibre-to-the-home player 123NET is planning to shake up the South African broadband market with 1Gbps FTTH services at prices never seen before in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":70496,"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":[8812],"tags":[13399,6587,21],"class_list":["post-73467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-123net","tag-fibre","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73467","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=73467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73469,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73467\/revisions\/73469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}