{"id":91597,"date":"2016-05-08T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91597"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T06:13:23","slug":"telkoms-new-wholesale-price-cut-could-lead-to-better-adsl-across-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91597-telkoms-new-wholesale-price-cut-could-lead-to-better-adsl-across-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Telkom wholesale ADSL price cuts announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom\u2019s Openserve has <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/164174-telkom-announces-adsl-ipc-price-cuts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> IP Connect (IPC) price cuts. IPC is a wholesale service which allows ISPs to offer ADSL, VDSL, and FTTH products using their own networks.<\/p>\n<p>While this doesn&#8217;t directly benefit gamers, it will translate to your ISP of choice hopefully being able to match these price decreases on their side with cheaper gaming ADSL, VDSL and FTTH offers on your side.<\/p>\n<p>Although we may not see direct savings, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ISPs welcomed the IPC price cuts, saying it was a step in the right direction for Telkom to remain competitive.\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>past<\/strong> <\/a>IPC cuts have also resulted in general improvements to services and possibly increased caps.<\/p>\n<p>ISPs obviously welcomed the IPC price cuts, saying it was a step in the right direction for Telkom to remain competitive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The new IPC price cuts will officially kick in on 1 June 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything you need to know about the Telkom Digital Gaming League\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90455-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-telkom-digital-gaming-league.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything you need to know about the Telkom Digital Gaming League<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Crystal Web\u2019s massive gaming plans\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87989-crystal-webs-massive-gaming-plans.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crystal Web\u2019s massive gaming plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91479-intels-10-core-gaming-processor-benchmarks-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New  Telkom price-cuts could mean better online gaming in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":81429,"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":[8812,20],"tags":[293,2932,18501,4964,18503,287],"class_list":["post-91597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-features","tag-adsl","tag-ftth","tag-ipc","tag-isp","tag-slash","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91597","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91653,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91597\/revisions\/91653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}