1Gbps fibre prices compared

[Jan]

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 fibre products from Afrihost, Axxess, Cool Ideas, Mweb, RSAWeb, and Webafrica across five open-access fibre network operators (FNOs).

 

[Prof.Merlin]

If Webafrica and frogfoot was a Ferrari, the engine would break down all the time and if you tried to take it to a repair centre, nobody would answer.

 

[LinuxMan]

Come a long way in 22 years:

How much Internet access cost in South Africa in 2000

Twenty years ago, there was no fibre, LTE, or ADSL. You only had a choice between dial-up, ISDN, or a leased-line.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[MJAnderson]

No Openserve?

 

[MJAnderson]

Come a long way in 22 years:

How much Internet access cost in South Africa in 2000

Twenty years ago, there was no fibre, LTE, or ADSL. You only had a choice between dial-up, ISDN, or a leased-line.

mybroadband.co.za

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If only our electricity utility developed at the same rate...

 

[genetic]

No Openserve?

Openserve does not offer 1Gbps.

 

[Dan C]

No Openserve?

I think their commercial top package is only 500Mbps.

 

[dualmeister]

How things have changed
There I was a few years ago stuck on 4Mbps ADSL

 

[BlooDBatH]

Why is Axxess so much more expensive then the rest on Metro Fibre?

 

[MJAnderson]

I think their commercial top package is only 500Mbps.

Interesting, I wonder why they haven't joined the gigabit club.

 

[dualmeister]

Interesting, I wonder why they haven't joined the gigabit club.

Maybe because it is totally unnecessary for 95% of users?

 

[Dan C]

How things have changed
There I was a few years ago stuck on 4Mbps ADSL

Yeah, I remember those days. It used to take 50mins just to download one episode of 'The Kelly Clarkson Show'.

 

[Monkeyz]

Interesting, I wonder why they haven't joined the gigabit club.

When i asked that to one of the Telkom technicians all he said was "We'll only provide it when we are confident enough to supply it to the public"

 

[MJAnderson]

Maybe because it is totally unnecessary for 95% of users?

Yet people will still pay for it, and underutilise it meaning Openserve can charge people for something they won't even use.

 

[MJAnderson]

When i asked that to one of the Telkom technicians all he said was "We'll only provide it when we are confident enough to supply it to the public"

Wonder why they're not confident when other GPON based providers are going after it.

 

[Monkeyz]

Wonder why they're not confident when other GPON based providers are going after it.

No clue, they are a strange lot
But give them time, they'll have to catch up eventually

 

[dualmeister]

Yet people will still pay for it, and underutilise it meaning Openserve can charge people for something they won't even use.

Only reason I'm on 500 Mbps and not 200 Mbps is the R100 difference.
If 1 Gbps was R100 more I'd go for that

 

[MJAnderson]

Only reason I'm on 500 Mbps and not 200 Mbps is the R100 difference.
If 1 Gbps was R100 more I'd go for that

The theatre popcorn price psychology

 

[r00igev@@r]

No actual testing? Just a paper exercise????

 

[MJAnderson]

No actual testing? Just a paper exercise????

What do you expect from a copy/paste publication like MyBroadband. The only investigations and research they do is when it's paid for lol