{"id":82715,"date":"2015-03-17T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=82715"},"modified":"2015-03-17T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:48:14","slug":"1gbps-durban-fibre-to-the-home-pricing-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/82715\/1gbps-durban-fibre-to-the-home-pricing-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"1Gbps Durban fibre-to-the-home pricing revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

123NET<\/strong><\/a> has unveiled its planned fibre-to-the-home prices, which include a 1Gbps uncapped FTTH product for R799 per month.<\/p>\n

Last week 123 Internetworks (123NET) announced that<\/strong><\/a> it was preparing to roll out fibre services to homes and businesses in KwaZulu-Natal and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

123Net CEO Kalin Bogatzevski said their aim is to provide ultra-fast Internet access to South Africans, which includes a 1Gbps services.<\/p>\n

The company has now unveiled its planned FTTH prices, and it is better than anything seen in South Africa before.<\/p>\n

123NET is planning three residential services, with prices ranging between R300 per month and R1,999 per month:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
Package<\/strong><\/td>\nType<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice p\/m<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5Mbps FTTH\u00a0(1Mbps upload)<\/strong><\/td>\nUncapped<\/td>\nR300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1Gbps FTTH (10Mbps international)<\/strong><\/td>\nUncapped<\/td>\nR799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1Gbps FTTH (100Mbps international)<\/strong><\/td>\nUncapped<\/td>\nR1999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

There is also the option to pay a once-off fee of R3,600 for the 5Mbps service, and then receive full, uncapped access free of charge.<\/p>\n

Bogatzevski explained that all their plans come with uncapped data \u2013 the only limits are for the international bandwidth speeds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not limit the speed to any South African IP network,\u201d said Bogatzevski. \u201cSubscribers will be able to use the maximum possible bandwidth [1Gbps] that the remote site can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that these FTTH plans will be available to all 123NET subscribers, independent of their location.<\/p>\n

More on fibre and Durban<\/h3>\n

Rich Durban suburbs to get 1Gbps internet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

MWEB launches free WiFi in Durban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

South African cities with the best quality of life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New fibre-to-the-home player 123NET is planning to shake up the South African broadband market with 1Gbps FTTH services at prices never seen before in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":14121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[9577,25,1622,2137],"class_list":["post-82715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-123net","tag-active","tag-fibre","tag-ftth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82715","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82717,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82715\/revisions\/82717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}