{"id":11578,"date":"2012-05-14T00:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:16:03","slug":"what-you-can-buy-for-r1000-2002-vs-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/11578\/what-you-can-buy-for-r1000-2002-vs-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What you can buy for R1000 – 2002 vs 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADSL<\/a> and mobile data prices have plunged over the last decade. The total cost of an ADSL service dropped by over 50% since it was launched in 2002, while mobile data costs decreased by 96% over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

In 2002, a basic 512 Kbps ADSL service cost residential customers R966.72 per month (R67.72 for analogue line rental, R680 for ADSL access and R219 for a 3GB data bundle). The price for a 384kbps with 5GB of data, in comparison, is now priced at R358.97 (R219.00 + R139.97).<\/p>\n

Even more significant price-cuts are visible in the mobile data market. In 2002, a 10MB data bundle from Vodacom<\/a> cost R200 (hence R20 per MB). Today, users can buy a 1GB data bundle from the same company for R99 (10c per MB).<\/p>\n

Broadband prices have seen price cuts of between 50% and 95% over the last decade. These price reductions were partly fuelled by lower international bandwidth prices made possible by SEACOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When compared with other products like petrol, fuel and food, broadband stands out as a product which bucked the trend of price increases.<\/p>\n

The following table provides an overview of the price changes of a few products over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Service<\/strong><\/td>\n2002<\/strong><\/td>\n2012<\/strong><\/td>\nChange<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom ADSL<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consumer ADSL access (512kbps\/1Mbps)<\/td>\nR680<\/td>\nR289<\/td>\n-58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business ADSL access (512kbps\/1Mbps)<\/td>\nR800<\/td>\nR289<\/td>\n-64%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3GB of blended ADSL data<\/td>\nR219<\/td>\nR59.4<\/td>\n-73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Analogue line rental<\/td>\nR68<\/td>\nR140<\/td>\n107%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom mobile data<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Out of bundle<\/td>\nR45<\/td>\nR2<\/td>\n-96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MyMeg 10<\/td>\nR200<\/td>\nR9<\/td>\n-96%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MultiChoice pay-TV<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv premium<\/td>\nR349<\/td>\nR590<\/td>\n69%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fuel<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Petrol<\/td>\nR4.26<\/td>\nR11.77<\/td>\n176%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Another interesting comparison is what consumers could get for R1,000 in 2002, and what they can get for the same amount now.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What you can get for R1000<\/strong><\/td>\n2002<\/strong><\/td>\n2012<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Litres of petrol<\/td>\n235<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Big Mac burgers<\/td>\n111<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DStv premium bouquets<\/td>\n2.9<\/td>\n1.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ADSL bandwidth (using multiple ADSL lines)<\/td>\n0.75Mbps<\/td>\n24Mbps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ADSL data (using multiple ADSL data bundles)<\/td>\n14GB<\/td>\n130GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MB of mobile data from Vodacom<\/td>\n50MB<\/td>\n10,000MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last decade, petrol prices have increased dramatically while broadband data prices have plummeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,26,65],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26527,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/26527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}