{"id":46326,"date":"2013-09-20T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46326"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:00:07","slug":"telkom-announces-free-adsl-speed-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/46326\/telkom-announces-free-adsl-speed-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom announces free ADSL speed upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1637-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> has on Friday (20 September) announced\u00a0that it is upgrading the speed of its ADSL products at no additional cost, starting from November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom&#8217;s wholesale division is planning to upgrade its Resell DSL Access offerings as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Up to 1 024 kbps will be migrated to &#8216;Up to 2 048 kbps;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Up to 2 048 kbps will be migrated to &#8216;Up to 4 096 kbps;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Up to 4\u00a0096\/10 240 kbps will be migrated to\u00a0 &#8216;Up to 10 240 kbps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In future, the &#8216;Up to 4\u00a0096\/10 240 kbps product offering will be split into two separate offerings i.e. &#8216;Up to 4 096 kbps and &#8216;Up to 10 240 kbps.<\/p>\n<p>The migration to higher speeds will take place in a phased approach, the telco said, noting that due to a planned network freeze over the December 2013\/January 2014 period the upgrade process will be paused and will resume thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the company\u2019s extensive Network Transformation Programme, deploying our exchange infrastructure closer to businesses and residential customers \u2013 essentially shortening the local loop \u2013 means that we are in a position to increase the performance of ADSL lines,&#8221; said <a title=\"Casper Kondo Chihaka\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10197-Casper-Kondo-Chihaka\">Casper Kondo Chihaka<\/a>, Telkom\u2019s managing executive of Wholesale Services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will provide customers the ability to burst to potentially higher speeds subject to network conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are confident that this enhanced value in terms of higher speeds and increased performance at the same price will go a long way in meeting the broadband demands of today,\u201d Chihaka said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news\u00a0on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom to further reduce IPC prices\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/46276\/telkom-to-further-reduce-ipc-prices\/\"><strong>Telkom to further reduce IPC prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ADSL prices and wholesale rates\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/24755\/adsl-prices-and-wholesale-rates\/\"><strong>ADSL prices and wholesale rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How ISPs make money from uncapped ADSL\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/31505\/making-money-from-uncapped-adsl-2\/\"><strong>How ISPs make money from uncapped ADSL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced that it is upgrading the speed of its ADSL products at no additional cost, starting from November 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[79,26,65],"class_list":["post-46326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-adsl","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326","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=46326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46350,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326\/revisions\/46350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}