{"id":75570,"date":"2015-05-16T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=75570"},"modified":"2015-05-17T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:10:28","slug":"dsl-sucks-the-future-of-broadband-is-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/75570-dsl-sucks-the-future-of-broadband-is-fibre","title":{"rendered":"DSL sucks, the future of broadband is fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average cost per megabit of residential broadband continues to fall for services delivered over cable and fibre networks. This is according to Point Topic\u2019s Q1 2015 broadband tariff trends report.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows how the average cost per Mbps\u00a0for business and residential broadband services has changed over time.<\/p>\n<p>While fibre and cable prices continue to decline, services delivered over copper networks follow a more erratic path and have actually risen in the last two quarters.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, copper broadband services have been consistently higher than cable and fibre equivalents over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Copper broadband services tend to be costliest where there is no competition in the market from other networks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75572\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Residential-broadband-cost-per-megabit-by-technology-over-time-source-Point-Topic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75572\" class=\"wp-image-75572\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Residential-broadband-cost-per-megabit-by-technology-over-time-source-Point-Topic.png\" alt=\"Residential-broadband-cost-per-megabit-by-technology-over-time-source-Point-Topic\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residential broadband cost-per-megabit by technology over time \u2013 Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/125528-global-broadband-prices-over-time.html\">MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/125528-global-broadband-prices-over-time.html\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a pity that South Africa is still so dependent on DSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":75574,"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":[2674,13960,6587,1969,11983],"class_list":["post-75570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-broadband-1","tag-cable","tag-fibre","tag-news-2","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75570","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75628,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75570\/revisions\/75628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}