{"id":443052,"date":"2020-10-25T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=443052"},"modified":"2020-10-25T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T08:55:07","slug":"get-affordable-uncapped-fibre-or-fixed-lte-for-your-home-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/443052\/get-affordable-uncapped-fibre-or-fixed-lte-for-your-home-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Get affordable uncapped fibre or fixed-LTE for your home today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Openserve will terminate copper services in many areas across South Africa on 1 December, which means affected ADSL users will have to move to fibre.<\/p>\n<p>The termination of ADSL forms part of Openserve\u2019s drive to upgrade to next-generation technologies and reduce infrastructure duplication.<\/p>\n<p>This will be disruptive to ADSL users, but migrating to fibre holds many benefits to households and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to ADSL, fibre is much faster, more stable, offers lower latency, and is not susceptible to copper theft.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest benefit, however, is that an uncapped fibre connection is more affordable than an ADSL or VDSL connection.<\/p>\n<p>It is particularly suitable for bandwidth-intensive services like watching Netflix or YouTube, or to host video conferencing for work meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Fibre easily supports multiple family members streaming videos and games, working from home, and surfing the web.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Move to fibre now<\/h3>\n<p>Supersonic makes it easy and affordable for current ADSL subscribers to move to uncapped fibre-to-the-home.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no fibre coverage in your area, users can upgrade to Supersonic\u2019s fixed-LTE products \u2013 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>With ADSL set to be terminated in many areas across South Africa on 1 December, it is time to move to an affordable uncapped fibre service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":139595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[79,1622,14735,13315],"class_list":["post-443052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-adsl","tag-fibre","tag-fixed-lte","tag-supersonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443052","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=443052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443056,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443052\/revisions\/443056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}