Fibre war in South Africa — with uncapped 50Mbps under R700
South Africans within the coverage of one of the country's major fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks can sign up for a 50Mbps or 100Mbps package at prices ranging from below R700 to around R1,000.
These packages are ideal for the needs...
Best South African ISPs for price, speed, and support
Research by Analytico revealed that Herotel, Cool Ideas, and Afrihost are the top Internet service providers (ISPs) for price, network quality, and support, respectively.
Analytico is a research company focusing on South Africa’s...
Afrihost beats Telkom and Mweb in brand strength
Research by Analytico revealed that Afrihost is the Internet service provider (ISP) with the strongest brand in South Africa, followed by Telkom, Mweb, and Cool Ideas.
Analytico is a South African research company that focuses on the IT and...
DStv launching uncapped fibre bundle deals
MultiChoice is launching a bundle deal that combines an uncapped fibre connection, DStv Compact package subscription, and its new Streama media streaming box for a monthly fee of R699.
MyBroadband discovered the offer on a seemingly unfinished web...
Fibre war in South Africa — with 200Mbps packages under R1,000
South African households can now choose from several fibre-to-the-home packages (FTTH) with download speeds as high as 200Mbps for less than R1,000 per month.
Telkom's wholesale fibre network operator (FNO) Openserve recently added...
South Africa's largest ISPs revealed
Telkom Internet remains South Africa's largest fixed broadband Internet service provider (ISP), but it faces stiff competition from Afrihost, Mweb, and Webafrica.
This is one of the findings of Analytico's 2022 South African ISP Report, which was recently...
South Africa's preferred ISPs revealed
Analytico's 2022 South African Broadband and ISP Brand Report revealed that Afrihost is South Africa's most preferred ISP, followed by Telkom, Mweb, Cool Ideas, and Vodacom.
The report is based on survey responses from 5,973 South African broadband...
One South African ISP has T&Cs that take 2 hours to read
It will take over 2 hours to read through all the terms and conditions related to buying a broadband service from Mweb.
It was one of the findings from a comparison of the length of the terms and conditions from prominent South African...
The Ferrari of Internet connections in South Africa pricing compared
Among prominent South African ISPs, RSAWeb and Webafrica offer consumers the most affordable 1 Gbps fibre packages across four of the country's biggest fibre networks, a MyBroadband analysis shows.
We compared the 1 Gbps...
Mweb gets three new execs
Internet service provider Mweb has appointed three new members to its executive committee.
The three new executives are Johan Jordaan, Lizette Loxton, and Sasha Beharilal.
Mweb managing director Manelisa Mavuso said he was excited with the new additions to the exco...
Dodgy Telkom deals under investigation — including one where it made a R7 billion loss
President Cyril Ramaphosa has issued a proclamation directing the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate allegations of maladministration and misconduct at Telkom.
The president referred several...
Fibre for less than R500 — from 4Mbps to 50Mbps
South Africans looking for an affordable fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) package will find a wide range of products to choose from for less than R500 per month.
The prices of fibre packages are not primarily determined by the Internet Service Providers...
Mweb gets new managing director
Dimension Data's parent company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) has announced it has appointed Manelisa Mavuso as Mweb's new managing director with immediate effect.
A well-placed source at Mweb previously told MyBroadband that Mweb's sole owner, Dimension...
South African broadband legend Rudi Jansen dies
South African Internet pioneer Rudi Jansen has died after suffering a heart attack on Friday, MyBroadband has learned.
Jansen will be best remembered in the industry as the man who championed affordable and uncapped ADSL broadband in South Africa.
Big Mweb outage in South Africa
A major outage on the Mweb network that runs on Vumatel's fibre infrastructure has left many South Africans without Internet access.
Mweb has told some clients that the problem lies with Vumatel, while Vumatel has said that its tests show its infrastructure is...
Howzit guys,
Sometime last year due to COVID, the company I work for decided to pay for our fibre lines so that we could work from home. We were given the base speed of 20/20 Mbps on the Mweb ISP. Now, because I wasn't paying for the fibre, I wasn't too fussed when the speeds were inadequate or...
I have always had issues ever since getting fibre where I cant watch twitch streams above 480p. I have a 100/100 line with the fibre company being Link Africa and the isp being Mweb anyone know of a way to fix it because the call center always like to think if Netflix is working then I have no...
South African fibre price war - uncapped fibre for under R400 per month
South Africans can now buy a fast, uncapped fibre-to-the-home service for under R400 per month thanks to speed increases and price cuts from network operators.
The fibre price war in South Africa was started by Openserve...
Hi,
Can someone please assist me with regards to the installation of my Fibre line at home.
I have waited longer than 14 days for the installation of Fibre from Mweb / Openserve to home residence. The request was made on 23 February 2020. To date I have no received any feedback from Openserve...