Openserve launches Internet service provider

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Openserve launches Internet service provider

Telkom's fibre network operator (FNO), Openserve, has launched its own Internet service provider (ISP), which is selling the FNO's fibre Internet packages directly to consumers.

Openserve announced the development in an email sent to third-party ISPs that resell its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services on 10 July 2026.
 
Undercutting their clients, both in direct pricing AND by offering a lower tier cheaper package that is not available to its resellers:

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Competition commission should have a look and mandate that they offer the 20/10Mbit and 40/10Mbit line options to resellers as well.
 
Sapphiron said:
Undercutting their clients, both in direct pricing AND by offering a lower tier cheaper package that is not available to its resellers:

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Competition commission should have a look and mandate that they offer the 20/10Mbit and 40/10Mbit line options to resellers as well.
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Undercutting? 25mbps for R499 on OS and 30mbps for R497 on AH.
 
I was under the impression that their settlement with the competition commission was that they will keep functional seperate between retail and wholesale parts of the business e. G. Almost the entire reason we have Telkom and OpenServe under different names...
 
wingnut771 said:
Undercutting? 25mbps for R499 on OS and 30mbps for R497 on AH.
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Its the asymmetrical packages that undercut it. for that price segment of the market, people don't know about upload speed, they only see Fibre for R345 and know its R150 less than what they pay afrihost for fibre. and to be fair, most home users wont notice the difference between 20/10mbit and 30/30mbit.

Afrihost could not buy a 20mbit line from Openserve if they wanted to, Openserve does not offer it to them. That's the problem.
 
Sapphiron said:
Its the asymmetrical packages that undercut it. for that price segment of the market, people don't know about upload speed, they only see Fibre for R345 and know its R150 less than what they pay afrihost for fibre. and to be fair, most home users wont notice the difference between 20/10mbit and 30/30mbit.

Afrihost could not buy a 20mbit line from Openserve if they wanted to, Openserve does not offer it to them. That's the problem.
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and middle class people can't buy a 20mbps line from Openserve either. Why do only poor people get cheap fibre?
 
Sapphiron said:
Its the asymmetrical packages that undercut it. for that price segment of the market, people don't know about upload speed, they only see Fibre for R345 and know its R150 less than what they pay afrihost for fibre. and to be fair, most home users wont notice the difference between 20/10mbit and 30/30mbit.

Afrihost could not buy a 20mbit line from Openserve if they wanted to, Openserve does not offer it to them. That's the problem.
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The 20mb packages are only available in certain areas what is deemed “low income areas” and you can get them via Afrihost as well

So please read the article

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What exactly counts as a "low income area"? Technically my area could be considered "low income" as there is not one USD billionaire living here as far as I know. Why do they discriminate against the middle class this way?

There is the option of 4G if 10 Mbps is sufficient for your needs. 50 Mbps fibre is no longer the value for money proposition it used to be.
 
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