{"id":46276,"date":"2013-09-19T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46276"},"modified":"2013-09-19T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T10:11:49","slug":"telkom-to-further-reduce-ipc-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/46276\/telkom-to-further-reduce-ipc-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom to further reduce IPC prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced tariff reductions on certain wholesale products \u2013 including an 8% cut to IP Connect (IPC), its wholesale ADSL product.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/81289-telkom-adsl-ipc-price-cuts-coming-sources.html\">information received from sources at the start of July 2013<\/a>, Telkom said that this latest reduction is in keeping with the obligations in the settlement agreement reached with the Competition Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement was made an order of the Competition Tribunal on 18 July 2013, Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelkom and the Commission had agreed which products will be subject to price reductions, as well as the extent to which the tariffed prices of those products would be reduced within the 2014 financial year,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>From 17 October 2013, Telkom Wholesale will reduce the effective tariff prices of IP Connect by 8%; Diginet by 4%; CHIPAC by 4%; Ethernet Express by 6%; Metro Clear by 6% and IPLC\u2019s by 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Telkom Wholesale will implement an effective 10% price reduction on the \u201coff the shelf\u201d prices across the following SAIX Dedicated Access services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAIX Silver National International 75\/25;<\/li>\n<li>SAIX Gold National International 75\/25;<\/li>\n<li>SAIX International IP Transit; and<\/li>\n<li>SAIX National Plus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These price cuts, stipulated by the Competition Tribunal, come after Telkom announced a free increase in IPC capacity in mid-August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This article was <a title=\"New Telkom ADSL IPC price cuts announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87236-new-telkom-adsl-ipc-price-cuts-announced.html\">first published on MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom executive pay shock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/45027\/telkom-executive-pay-shock\/\"><strong>Telkom executive pay shock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Telkom and unions kiss and make up\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/43676\/telkom-and-unions-kiss-and-make-up\/\">Telkom and unions kiss and make up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom wage drama continues\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/43480\/telkom-wage-drama-continues\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom wage drama continues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Telkom\u2019s unionised employees\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/43042\/telkoms-unionised-employees\/\">Telkom\u2019s unionised employees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom wage talks update\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/41364\/telkom-wage-talks-update\/\"><strong>Telkom wage talks update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced tariff reductions on certain wholesale products \u2013 including an 8% cut to IP Connect (IPC), its wholesale ADSL product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,6693,65],"class_list":["post-46276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active","tag-ipc","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46276","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46279,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46276\/revisions\/46279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}