{"id":429024,"date":"2020-08-27T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=429024"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:33:01","slug":"adsl-is-getting-cut-off-next-week-move-to-fibre-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/429024\/adsl-is-getting-cut-off-next-week-move-to-fibre-now\/","title":{"rendered":"ADSL is getting cut off next week &#8211; Move to fibre now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Openserve will terminate ADSL and copper services in areas which are covered by its fibre network on Tuesday, 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the move is part of its drive to upgrade services to next-generation technologies and reduce infrastructure duplication.<\/p>\n<p>What this means for ADSL users in areas with fibre coverage is that they have to move to fibre.<\/p>\n<p>While it is somewhat disruptive, it is ultimately a positive development as fibre is superior to copper-based ADSL.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre offers much higher speeds and lower latency than ADSL, it is more stable and reliable, and it is not attractive to copper thieves.<\/p>\n<p>It also offers better value-for-money than ADSL. 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 for current ADSL subscribers to move to affordable uncapped fibre-to-the-home.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no fibre coverage in your area, users can move to Supersonic\u2019s fixed-LTE products &#8211; which run on MTN\u2019s award-winning network.<\/p>\n<p>Supersonic\u2019s fixed-LTE packages start at only R249 per month and offer excellent speed and coverage.<\/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>Openserve will terminate ADSL in areas which are covered by its fibre network on 1 September. Here is an 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":[79,1622,13315,2136],"class_list":["post-429024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-adsl","tag-fibre","tag-supersonic","tag-vdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429024","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=429024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429026,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429024\/revisions\/429026"}],"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=429024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}