512Kbps ADSL speed upgrade

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 23 June 2008

All Telkom’s 4Mbps ADSL users will receive an automatic ADSL speed upgrade of 512Kbps by the end of this month at no additional cost.

This must come as good news to ADSL users despite the fact that Telkom is clearly not willing to lower the cost of ADSL to more acceptable levels. This will however come back to bite them when the likes of Neotel starts to roll out cheap ADSL. ADSL users looking for even greater ADSL speed upgrades will be delighted to know that Telkom has done live testing of an 8Mbps ADSL service on their network. ADSL users will however have to wait on additional ADSL speed upgrades. The reason for this is simply because Telkom has no plans to roll out faster ADSL services in the immediate future than the planned 512Kbps ADSL speed upgrade.

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) welcomes Telkom’s ADSL speed upgrade.