{"id":425682,"date":"2020-08-15T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=425682"},"modified":"2020-08-15T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:42:38","slug":"adsl-will-be-cut-off-soon-move-to-fibre-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/425682\/adsl-will-be-cut-off-soon-move-to-fibre-now\/","title":{"rendered":"ADSL will be cut off soon &#8211; Move to fibre now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Openserve has announced that it will <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/359923-big-adsl-shutdown-in-south-africa-these-areas-will-be-cut-off.html\"><strong>terminate ADSL and copper services<\/strong><\/a> in areas which are covered by its fibre network on the 1st of September.<\/p>\n<p>In simple terms, this means that anyone who is still using ADSL in areas with fibre coverage will be cut off at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to switch off ADSL is with the intention of upgrading services to next-generation technologies and reduce infrastructure duplication.<\/p>\n<p>ADSL subscribers in affected areas will be forced to move to fibre. While this is somewhat disruptive, it is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre offers far higher download and upload speeds than ADSL, a more reliable connection, and lower latency.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre is therefore very suitable for bandwidth-intensive services like Netflix, YouTube and work-from-home activities like video conferencing.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest benefit, though, is price.<\/p>\n<p>An uncapped fibre service is cheaper than a comparable ADSL or VDSL connection.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Move to fibre now<\/h3>\n<p>Supersonic makes it easy to move from ADSL to fibre, and offers affordable uncapped fibre-to-the-home services.<\/p>\n<p>For those who cannot get fibre, Supersonic also offers fixed-LTE products over MTN\u2019s award-winning network &#8211; starting at only 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>ADSL will be cut off in many areas across South Africa at the end of the month. Here is the easy way to move to 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":[79,6432,1622,13315,2136],"class_list":["post-425682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-adsl","tag-dsl","tag-fibre","tag-supersonic","tag-vdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425682","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=425682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425684,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425682\/revisions\/425684"}],"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=425682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}