{"id":9966,"date":"2012-04-17T07:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2013-04-12T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T10:51:10","slug":"mweb-does-it-again-with-uncapped-adsl-price-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/9966\/mweb-does-it-again-with-uncapped-adsl-price-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"MWEB does it again with uncapped ADSL price-cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mweb\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1817-Mweb\">MWEB<\/a> has slashed the price of its 1Mbps uncapped <a title=\"ADSL\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224881-ADSL\">ADSL<\/a> service from R299 per month to R199 per month, and is offering all of its 384kbps uncapped subscribers a free upgrade to 1Mbps accounts.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB Business is also reducing the price of its business uncapped 1Mbps service from R986 per month to R799 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The company has also reduced the price of its 384kbps uncapped offering from R219 to R199 per month.<\/p>\n<p>This price-cut creates the curious situation where MWEB\u2019s 384kbps product is priced the same as the ISPs 1Mbps service. However, this is a planned initiative to boost entry-level broadband speeds to 1Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB ISP CEO, <a title=\"Derek Hershaw\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1818-Derek-Hershaw\">Derek Hershaw<\/a> said that it is in-line with their aim to make 1Mbps Uncapped ADSL the new entry-level uncapped product in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to see 1Mbps uncapped packages become the new entry-level product for local Internet users,\u201d said Hershaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo champion this change, MWEB has dropped the price of 1Mbps uncapped ADSL by R100. In the interests of growing fixed-line broadband in SA, we look forward to a formal announcement from Telkom to say they\u2019re upgrading all 384Kbps lines to 1Mbps at no extra cost to the end-user,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>This price reduction places pressure on MWEB\u2019s rivals to follow suit. <a title=\"Afrihost\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1822-Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> currently charges R297 for their 1Mbps uncapped ADSL service, while <a title=\"Web Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1820-Web-Africa\">Web Africa\u2019s<\/a> price is R289.<\/p>\n<p>This move by MWEB may well result in affordable uncapped 1Mbps ADSL services becoming the standard entry-level broadband access speed in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom upgrading broadband speed and infrastructure\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/8585\/telkom-upgrades-broadband-speed-and-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Telkom upgrading broadband speed and infrastructure<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MWEB has once again put pressure on its competitors with an aggressive price reduction on its 1Mbps uncapped ADSL service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[1944,26,2382,65,953],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-afrihost","tag-headline","tag-mweb-derek-hershaw","tag-telkom","tag-web-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35652,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/35652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}