{"id":76691,"date":"2015-01-06T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=76691"},"modified":"2015-01-06T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T09:24:49","slug":"telkom-planning-free-adsl-upgrades-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/76691\/telkom-planning-free-adsl-upgrades-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom planning free ADSL upgrades: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is planning to increase the entry-level ADSL speed from 2Mbps to 4Mbps. This is according to information received from multiple ISP executives.<\/p>\n<p>While details about this planned ADSL speed increase remain sketchy, many ISP executives confirmed that they are aware of the planned ADSL speed increase in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first free ADSL speed increase since November 2013 when <a title=\"Telkom ADSL speed upgrades\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/92499-telkom-adsl-speed-upgrades-final-dates-and-other-details.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Telkom upgraded its 1Mbps, 2Mbps, and 4Mbps ADSL product speeds<\/strong><\/a> to 2Mbps, 4Mbps, and 10Mbps respectively.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about this planned upgrade, Telkom said that it \u201ccontinuously investigates opportunities to improve the quality and affordability of broadband access in South Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom would, however, not provide any details about any planned ADSL speed upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will make announcements in this regard when it is appropriate to do so,\u201d said Jacqui O\u2019 Sullivan, Managing Executive, Telkom Group Communication.<\/p>\n<p>This article was <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/116223-telkom-adsl-speed-upgrade-planned-sources.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/116223-telkom-adsl-speed-upgrade-planned-sources.html\">first published on MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom trims call centre staff\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/76372\/telkom-trims-call-centre-staff\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom trims call centre staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom brings LTE-Advanced to five more suburbs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/76002\/telkom-brings-lte-advanced-to-five-more-suburbs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom brings LTE-Advanced to five more suburbs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom targets fibre-to-the-business\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/75164\/telkom-targets-fibre-to-the-business\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom targets fibre-to-the-business<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry speculation suggests that Telkom is planning to upgrade entry-level ADSL speeds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[79,26,65],"class_list":["post-76691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76691","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=76691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76697,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76691\/revisions\/76697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}