Afrihost launches fixed LTE-A packages

@AfriGenie - I thought being owned by MTN hampered your ability to bring disruptive products to the market? Now that you own yourselves again when are we going to see something exciting again? This is just bleh.....
 
Gaz{M} said:
Not everybody is downloading 25GB Blu Ray rips of every movie ever made.

30GB a month is plenty for me.

That said, I don't think the pricing is that competitive and also the entry price is too high.
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DOOM on it's own is 70GB and I finished it in a week. Add Netflix and normal surfing and I'm screwed.

I've currently got 10Mb/s uncapped wireless with Bitco at R1000 per month. I like the idea of Rain but the caps are just too small for a serious user. I don't pirate but I game on both PC and XBox One and we use Netflix, Youtube and such on the tv instead of Dstv.
 
Deadmanza said:
Not everyone just checks mail once a month or uses the google to check a recipe on making prune juice. :rolleyes:

Streaming, steam, etc etc
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Very true! That is where these LTE-A packages offer a nice middleground between the portability and availability of Mobile Data and the cost-point of DSL and Fibre.

Not every is covered by DSL or Fibre.
 
dotcat said:
@AfriGenie - I thought being owned by MTN hampered your ability to bring disruptive products to the market? Now that you own yourselves again when are we going to see something exciting again? This is just bleh.....
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We would love to be more aggressive with our pricing, but the package structures are deteremined by Rain themselves.
 
Why would Rain determine a price of R459 for 35 GB ? Get 1000 customers signing up , that = to : R459,000

Why not aggressively do a price of R399 for 50GB + 50GB midnight data ? Get 2000 or more customers signing up , that = to : R798,000

** The less the price, the more the customers, the more the data , the more the customers ** Simple
 
Afrihost, please explain why you insist on forcing people to buy a router with this? This is a complete deal breaker for me. I have a perfectly good LTE-A router that I could use, forcing me to buy another router is ridiculous.
 
deweyzeph said:
Afrihost, please explain why you insist on forcing people to buy a router with this? This is a complete deal breaker for me. I have a perfectly good LTE-A router that I could use, forcing me to buy another router is ridiculous.
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I concur :confused:
 
deweyzeph said:
Afrihost, please explain why you insist on forcing people to buy a router with this? This is a complete deal breaker for me. I have a perfectly good LTE-A router that I could use, forcing me to buy another router is ridiculous.
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That's the way Rain has specifically packaged this deal. As much as we want to, at the moment we are not able to alter the implementation of this offer.
 
AfriGenie said:
That's the way Rain has specifically packaged this deal. As much as we want to, at the moment we are not able to alter the implementation of this offer.
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So you're basically excluding almost all of your existing wireless clients who already have LTE-A routers from switching to this deal unless they've got more money than sense. I'm certainly not going to waste R2k on possibly the ugliest LTE-A router ever produced when I already have one.
 
I think you guys are missing the point.

Rain probably went to Afrihost asking them to resell their product, just like they did with WebAfrica and MWeb.

Afrihost did not have any say in the structure of this product, and only bolted this onto their existing service portfolio to offer access to those that do not have ADSL or Fibre.
 
deweyzeph said:
So you're basically excluding almost all of your existing wireless clients who already have LTE-A routers from switching to this deal unless they've got more money than sense. I'm certainly not going to waste R2k on possibly the ugliest LTE-A router ever produced when I already have one.
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This is a launch promotion that is being run, I am sure that there will be additional options made available in the future. :)
 
OneKnight said:
I think you guys are missing the point.

Rain probably went to Afrihost asking them to resell their product, just like they did with WebAfrica and MWeb.

Afrihost did not have any say in the structure of this product, and only bolted this onto their existing service portfolio to offer access to those that do not have ADSL or Fibre.
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Rain should stick to their business of selling data and leave the purchasing of devices to the consumer. Forcing consumers to purchase a specific device to have access to their network is just plain stupid and shows utter contempt for the consumer.
 
OneKnight said:
I think you guys are missing the point.

Rain probably went to Afrihost asking them to resell their product, just like they did with WebAfrica and MWeb.

Afrihost did not have any say in the structure of this product, and only bolted this onto their existing service portfolio to offer access to those that do not have ADSL or Fibre.
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Nope ! No misunderstanding, This deal will fall flat on it's face because of having to buy their LTE router, it's that simple !
 
deweyzeph said:
Rain should stick to their business of selling data and leave the purchasing of devices to the consumer. Forcing consumers to purchase a specific device to have access to their network is just plain stupid and shows utter contempt for the consumer.
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That would probably be wise, yes.

I think they bought a lot of these routers to get a bulk discount, and now they have to get them moving before they are outdated.

It is almost certain that they will have a data-only option on the future, once the number of users have gone up.

On a sidenote: As always there is a lot of pointless aggression on Mybb about something so insignificant in the greater scheme of things.

I would love to be a fly on the wall when these guys' wives and mothers try out a new dish for dinner.

Must be a warzone. :D
 
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cavedog said:
Why would you even consider them when you can buy the router from Mweb for R1599 for the same thing?

https://www.mweb.co.za/internet-connection/lte-advanced
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With WebAfrica and probably Mweb too, you have to give a calendar month's notice before you can cancel, so even if you cancel immediately after receiving the router, you owe them at least R1,098 which brings the total to R2,697.

With Afrihost if you cancel before the 24th of a month, it gets cancelled that same month.
 
OneKnight said:
With WebAfrica and probably Mweb too, you have to give a calendar month's notice before you can cancel, so even if you cancel immediately after receiving the router, you owe them at least R1,098 which brings the total to R2,697.

With Afrihost if you cancel before the 24th of a month, it gets cancelled that same month.
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Not fair to compare like that because you would essentially get double the data compared to Afrihost for the same price had you canceled immediately with Afrihost.
 
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