{"id":96721,"date":"2016-06-28T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=96721"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:00:39","slug":"this-is-how-little-profit-your-isp-actually-makes-from-an-adsl-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/96721-this-is-how-little-profit-your-isp-actually-makes-from-an-adsl-account","title":{"rendered":"This is how little profit your ISP actually makes from an ADSL account"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you pay your Internet service provider R250 for a 4Mbps uncapped ADSL account, you may assume that a healthy portion of this money is profit. You would be\u00a0mistaken.<\/p>\n

South African ISPs work on thin ADSL margins, where the price of wholesale IP Connect (IPC) bandwidth is the biggest contributor to the overall cost of the service.<\/p>\n

Other costs associated with providing an ADSL account include national and international bandwidth, marketing, support, administration, and network management.<\/p>\n

When these costs are removed from the total retail price of a R250 uncapped ADSL service, the profit is low: just over R11<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The image below provides an overview of the costs associated with providing an uncapped ADSL product, with the details courtesy of a local ISP.<\/p>\n

\"ADSL<\/a><\/p>\n

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This\u00a0article\u00a0is republished from MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

More on ADSL<\/h3>\n

This is how you calculate the cost of an uncapped ADSL package<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is how a single engineer knocked out half the world\u2019s Internet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

No more Telkom line rental on your bill \u2014 here is a hard dose of reality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A breakdown of the cost of an uncapped ADSL account shows where the money you pay your Internet service provider goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":81441,"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":[19021,11305],"class_list":["post-96721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-asynchronous-digital-subscriber-line-adsl","tag-ip-connect-ipc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96721","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96755,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96721\/revisions\/96755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}