Affordable fibre comparison

And here I'm stuck with Vodacom being my FNO, and having to pay R799 a month for a 50/25 Mbps asymmetrical line.
Well if the competition tribunal approves the deal Vodacom's FNO will become part of Vumatel and be open access. But the deal is recommended to not go ahead because of "reasons".
 
Anyone aware of a lower entrypoint for residential subscribers?

For example:

What if I want this without the 12-month contract attached?

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And this is why Telkom is still hated with a passion:

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These dumbfucks can go to hell in their handbaskets of scraps ...
 

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They all state 50Mbps as the entry level, yet Vuma's site still shows 25Mbps offers for my address

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but my current ISP says nope, 50 is the lowest. Not that i want lower, but there's many people in the neighbourhood that thinks 50 is overkill for their needs. People like my parents don't need anything more than 10 for that matter.
 
If your FNO is MetroFibre, Webafrica offers the cheapest package at R719
Metrofibre does have cheaper entry level packages, weird article...
Afrihost on Metrofibre Nova offers 20/20 @ R497 and on Metrofibre Nexus 25/25 @ R517Afrihost Metro fibre Nova.png
 
The reason that's there's a discrepancy in "lowest tier" offerings is that the lower price packages aren't available everywhere and the lower priced packages are only available in some neighborhoods.....also if you're in certain neighbourhoods with Vuma or Openserve coverage with their low cost products like Vuma Reach or Web Connect, you hwve very limited upgrade choice. 100mbps is your top end regardless of if you want more speed.

The fibre landscape is all effed up and hard to conclusively provide pricing comparisons.
 
The reason that's there's a discrepancy in "lowest tier" offerings is that the lower price packages aren't available everywhere and the lower priced packages are only available in some neighborhoods.....also if you're in certain neighbourhoods with Vuma or Openserve coverage with their low cost products like Vuma Reach or Web Connect, you hwve very limited upgrade choice. 100mbps is your top end regardless of if you want more speed.

The fibre landscape is all effed up and hard to conclusively provide pricing comparisons.


Openserve Web Connect has a top offering of 40 Mbps only, it seems! :notworthy:

These comments smell suspiciously of facts and reasonableness. I denounce this heresy!

This could possibly have been mentioned in the article?
 
@entropyagent

The author of the article did not want to create unreasonable expectations, because that would leave the readers disappointed and dejected.

Admmiittedly, it's nice someone thought about my feelings.
Openserve Web Connect has a top offering of 40 Mbps only, it seems! :notworthy:

Luxury!

Akshually, 20/10 is better than my current dispensation. What does one lose with the "free" web connect device? Can I still choose my DNS provider (e.g. 1.1.1.1 , 9.9.9.9) And internal network IP ranges?
 
Well if the competition tribunal approves the deal Vodacom's FNO will become part of Vumatel and be open access. But the deal is recommended to not go ahead because of "reasons".
Correction, Vumatel will convert many of their own open access networks to Vodacom only FTTH networks. Much more profitable for them that way.
 
Correction, Vumatel will convert many of their own open access networks to Vodacom only FTTH networks. Much more profitable for them that way.
Huh? Part of the submission to the competition commission was conversion to open-access network. So don't come and talk nonsense here because you feel negative towards them.
 
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