{"id":396091,"date":"2020-05-09T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T05:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=396091"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T17:30:50","slug":"adsl-is-dead-move-to-fibre-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/396091\/adsl-is-dead-move-to-fibre-now\/","title":{"rendered":"ADSL is dead &#8211; Move to fibre now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is cutting off ADSL and VDSL subscribers across South Africa as part of its strategy to decommission its old copper network.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said last year that the company aims to exit the copper segment entirely in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>What this means for ADSL and VDSL subscribers is that they have to look for an alternative broadband service.<\/p>\n<p>The preferred option is fibre, which offers numerous benefits over ADSL. These benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster speeds which range between 10Mbps and 1,000Mbps.<\/li>\n<li>A more reliable connection. Fibre is also not targeted by cable thieves.<\/li>\n<li>Fibre is more affordable than ADSL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fibre is available in many suburbs across South Africa, but there are certain areas which are not covered.<\/p>\n<p>For people living outside of a fibre-covered area, a fixed-LTE connection is a good alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Fixed-LTE is quick to install, it provides good speeds, and offers affordable high-data-usage accounts.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Move to fibre now<\/h3>\n<p>For people looking to move to fibre, an excellent choice is <a href=\"https:\/\/supersonic.co.za\/Pages\/Home.aspx?utm_source=MyBroadband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Supersonic<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; winner of the Best ISP in South Africa award in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Supersonic offers fibre-to-the-home throughout South Africa and makes it easy to move from ADSL to fibre.<\/p>\n<p>People without fibre coverage will have the option to get a Supersonic fixed-LTE connection over MTN\u2019s award-winning network.<\/p>\n<p>Supersonic\u2019s fixed-LTE service offers subscribers a fast and reliable Internet service with prices starting from R249 per month.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about moving from ADSL to fibre or fixed-LTE, complete the form below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; margin-top: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/general\/lead-forms\/supersonic\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is rapidly cutting off ADSL and VDSL subscribers across South Africa. Here is the easiest way to move to fast and affordable fibre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":182569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[13315],"class_list":["post-396091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-supersonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396091","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396115,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396091\/revisions\/396115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}