{"id":99152,"date":"2015-09-23T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T06:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=99152"},"modified":"2015-09-23T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T06:58:03","slug":"telkom-cuts-adsl-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/99152\/telkom-cuts-adsl-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom cuts capped and uncapped ADSL prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Telkom customers are set to receive double their Telkom Internet data allocation for free from 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2016, the company announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demand for data is infinite and our efforts are geared to offering our customers as much value as we possibly can to satisfy this demand,\u201d said managing director of Telkom Mobile and Consumer, Attila Vitai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only are we increasing data values but we have also reviewed and reduced the prices on our top data products. For example, we have reduced the price of our 500 GB product from R2495 to R1599 \u2013 now with our double data promotion customers will receive one Terrabyte of data for R1599,\u201d Vitai said.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom\u2019s data TopUp rates have also been reduced, while the double data promotion also applies to TopUp options.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom also announced the return of its popular \u201cTI Entertainment\u201d add-on for R99 per month, which offers uncapped data to selected content sites including Apple TV, iTunes and DSTV online services such as BoxOffice and CatchUp.<\/p>\n<p>You can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/139652-telkom-cuts-adsl-prices-and-doubled-adsl-data.html\">view the changes to the packages here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Uncapped price cuts<\/h3>\n<p>Telkom also\u00a0announced a reduction in its high-speed uncapped digital subscriber line (DSL) services.<\/p>\n<p>While the 2Mbps, 4Mbps, and 10Mbps stand-alone home uncapped account prices stay the same, Telkom said it will cut the prices on its uncapped very-high-bit-rate DSL services from 1 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Its 20Mbps account will now cost R999 per month, the 40Mbps uncapped service was cut to R1,439 per month, and 100Mbps to R2,149.<\/p>\n<p>You can<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/139650-telkom-cuts-uncapped-dsl-prices.html\"> view the changes to uncapped packages here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/97705\/telkom-announces-open-access-trial-at-200-exchanges\/\">Telkom\u2019s hugely ambitious fibre plans for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom feeling pressure from fibre competitors\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/94553\/telkom-feeling-pressure-from-fibre-competitors\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom feeling pressure from fibre competitors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"item-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/97705\/telkom-announces-open-access-trial-at-200-exchanges\/\">Telkom announces open access trial at 200 exchanges<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has cut its ADSL prices, and launched a new promotion that will give its ADSL subscribers double their normal data caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":90052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[26,65],"class_list":["post-99152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99152","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=99152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99160,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99152\/revisions\/99160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}