Afrihost price increases announced

WalkWithMe said:
Electricity gone up
Salaries - I am sure workers want/got increases
Rent gone up
So more gone up and than whats gone down
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Wholesale input costs
Management efficiency
Economies of scale
Dump the boolshyters on the call centre
Shareholder greed
 
Personally I see no issue with this, I'll happily pay R10 or R20 more per month as long as I get what I pay for and if not, I know I can move away at any time and so does Afrihost.
 
flbjhb said:
When you say 17 years you are referring to Hosting. Connectivity hasn’t been 17 years so that statement of “haven’t had a price increase in 17 years” needs to be amended slightly.
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I'm talking about in all our products across the board. We've always dropped our prices or kept them the same even when costs rose.
 
rwenzori said:
Yubba yubba yubba. Are you not getting cheaper input costs? Fibre input costs not dropping?
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Not really. Rising demand for fibre and increased speeds means we are under constant pressure to increase our network capacity with no increase in our revenue.
 
evilskaap said:
So after only being a client for a handful of months there is an increase.

A handful of months not 17 years. So no benefit for me in your statement.

I do hope that this investment will mean faster response times on support requests, a shorter billing window(That thing is huge!) and realtime Rain data usage updates.
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I totally understand your position. We definitely try not to ever increase prices and we've managed to do so for many years.
 
Devo1 said:
When wholesale ipc came down last year us capped ouens got no reductions. And now we have to pay more
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We always have to balance reducing prices with upgrading our network and recently we've been upgrading our network. With so many clients moving over to fibre, a reduction in IPC doesn't have the effect it has in previous years and has no impact on our mobile, fixed wireless and fibre costs.
 
rwenzori said:
Wholesale input costs
Management efficiency
Economies of scale
Dump the boolshyters on the call centre
Shareholder greed
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The large majority of our costs are input costs (especially for our broadband network) for providing services.

Remember that we still run month to month contracts, so our shareholders wouldn't make a decision to make a small amount of money but lose our clients. In fact, clients have 30 days before the increases come in. So our shareholders would definitely not approve the change unless absolutely necessary for business reasons.
 
bigboy529 said:
Personally I see no issue with this, I'll happily pay R10 or R20 more per month as long as I get what I pay for and if not, I know I can move away at any time and so does Afrihost.
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Thanks for understanding :) Our month to month service is a sanity check to make sure that we always keep our clients at the centre of our decisions. We really believe that this is the best way forward in the circumstances.
 
200gb shaped capped account
R199 +R10 = R209

Not that big deal. As long as your service gets better I dont care
 
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