{"id":8227,"date":"2010-10-27T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"openweb-shaped-adsl-data-package-at-r5-78-per-gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8227-openweb-shaped-adsl-data-package-at-r5-78-per-gb","title":{"rendered":"Openweb: shaped ADSL data package at R5.78 per GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Openweb yesterday announced their latest month-end-madness special offer in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/forumdisplay.php\/79-ADSL-discussions\"><strong>ADSL<\/strong><\/a> space: 50GBs of shaped ADSL data for R289. This translates into a price of R5.78 per GB.<\/p>\n<p>Users are however warned that peer-to-peer and torrent services are  shaped, and that the account will only work from the day of purchase  until 15 November 2010. Any unused data will be lost on 15 November.<\/p>\n<p>Potential subscribers should further note that these accounts only  allow for a single concurrent connection, and that the maximum speed  supported is 4Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>This special from Openweb compares very favorably with similar  offerings in the market like Afrihost&rsquo;s 50GB ADSL accounts which retail  at R475 per month, Axxess&rsquo; 50 GB DSL Lite service priced at R950 and Web  Africa&rsquo;s 55 GB data bundles priced at R2 450 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Users with 384 Kbps ADSL lines may however benefit more from the  myriad of 384 Kbps uncapped ADSL services which are priced between R99  per month (Axxess&rsquo; Justsurf accounts) and R219 per month (MWEB uncapped  ADSL services).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Openweb continues to innovate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This latest offering from Openweb follows the launch of its <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/16085-New-uncapped-unshaped-ADSL-accounts-launched.html\">Uncapped, Unshaped Static IP products range<\/a> earlier this week and its lower priced Gold Uncapped service in mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>Openweb typically makes use of Internet Solutions as an upstream  bandwidth provider &ndash; a relationship which allowed Openweb to carve out a  niche for itself with cheap, high-bandwidth, local only service, before  the uncapped revolution occured.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/8915-Openweb-special-R5.78-per-GB-shaped-ADSL-data\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Openweb's 50GB data package deal\">Openweb&#8217;s 50GB data package deal<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openweb launches month-end special offering subscribers 50GB of data at R289<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}