MWeb to increase data speed

MWeb says it will increase data speeds at no extra cost to customers once Telkom has upgraded its line speeds.

Telkom is upgrading all ADSL lines and MWeb says it will pass the higher speeds onto customers at no extra charge. Image: Cybrain Fotolia

Telkom is upgrading line speeds at the exchanges between November and February next year.

MWeb said its uncapped ADSL products would be automatically migrated early next year at no extra cost while premium uncapped products, which offered higher usage thresholds, remained unchanged.

"While we welcome Telkom's initiative to double the access line speeds at no extra costs to the end-user, ISP's (internet service providers) cannot be expected to absorb the costs of a corresponding increase in data products," MWeb's chief executive Derek Hershaw said.

"We are currently in discussions with Telkom around a significant reduction in their wholesale IPC charges and if Telkom did not do this we will ask the Competition Commission to intervene," he said.

"We can then pass on the full benefits of the line speed upgrades on to all of our customers," Hershaw said.

Source: Sapa via I-Net Bridge