FTTH Pricing is getting a bit weird

[HorusZA]

On the very website hosting this forum, I just read the headlines "1Gbps home fibre for R775 a month".
Cybersmart is offering the very attractive package described in the headline to its customers (including via my current ISP Cool Ideas).
Excellent, competition is a good thing... I'm sure Vumatel, et al will also come to party... right?

You'd think... except today I got a notice from Cool Ideas that my 200/200 package is increasing from R1239 to R1266. WTF!?

How can there be such vastly different offerings in the same market?!

 

[WAslayer]

There is hardly any competition when it comes to fibre lines, because very few suburbs in very few cities have fibre coverage by more than one provider..

Until there are three to four or more fibre providers covering the same areas, line prices are going to remain high..

 

[Lupus]

On the very website hosting this forum, I just read the headlines "1Gbps home fibre for R775 a month".
Cybersmart is offering the very attractive package described in the headline to its customers (including via my current ISP Cool Ideas).
Excellent, competition is a good thing... I'm sure Vumatel, et al will also come to party... right?

You'd think... except today I got a notice from Cool Ideas that my 200/200 package is increasing from R1239 to R1266. WTF!?

How can there be such vastly different offerings in the same market?!

Vumatel is a monopoly so can charge what they want.

 

[Lupus]

There is hardly any competition when it comes to fibre lines, because very few suburbs in very few cities have fibre coverage by more than one provider..

Until there are three to four or more fibre providers covering the same areas, line prices are going to remain high..

Ah back in the day when we thought fibre would be our saving grace.

 

[CoolEscalator]

On the very website hosting this forum, I just read the headlines "1Gbps home fibre for R775 a month".
Cybersmart is offering the very attractive package described in the headline to its customers (including via my current ISP Cool Ideas).
Excellent, competition is a good thing... I'm sure Vumatel, et al will also come to party... right?

You'd think... except today I got a notice from Cool Ideas that my 200/200 package is increasing from R1239 to R1266. WTF!?

How can there be such vastly different offerings in the same market?!

Unfortunately Fibre pricing isn't always going to the as uniform as we would like across FNO's, as each FNO has completely diffent setups , support structure, client-base sizes , Capacity and infrastucture to maintain, which comes at a cost..
If you do take Cybersmart out of mix, majority of the pricing for that packagage ranges from 1.2k-2.2k. Across all our FNO's, , where Cybersmart is the only FNO charging that low

Now I don't know the specifics as to how Cybersmart can offer the package at that low price, what I can advise is that we try our best to keep the increases to a minimum.

 

[PBCool]

On the very website hosting this forum, I just read the headlines "1Gbps home fibre for R775 a month".
Cybersmart is offering the very attractive package described in the headline to its customers (including via my current ISP Cool Ideas).
Excellent, competition is a good thing... I'm sure Vumatel, et al will also come to party... right?

You'd think... except today I got a notice from Cool Ideas that my 200/200 package is increasing from R1239 to R1266. WTF!?

How can there be such vastly different offerings in the same market?!

Cybersmarts network is very niche and "small" in comparison.

Its like the argument of connecting a bunch of homes nearby a major metro would be cheap, but to connect a country is expensive.

You cant bill a customer nearby to infrastructure a cheap rate and someone remote a high rate realistically.

 

[purrr]

There is hardly any competition when it comes to fibre lines, because very few suburbs in very few cities have fibre coverage by more than one provider..

Until there are three to four or more fibre providers covering the same areas, line prices are going to remain high..

In Hermanus there are two, Openserve and Lightstruck, which is nice, but pricing is about the same.

 

[purrr]

Ah back in the day when we thought fibre would be our saving grace.

Well it is pretty awesome.