Huge demand for Supersonic Air Fibre

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Huge demand for Supersonic Air Fibre

Supersonic has seen significant demand for its Unlimited Air Fibre wireless product, which was announced at the start of February 2021.

The ISP last month revealed it was launching the service to offer fibre-like uncapped wireless Internet in areas without fibre coverage.

Starting from R399 per month, customers can get fast, consistent download speeds of 5Mbps and upload of 2Mbps.

 

[mister]

Similar to aerial fibre, Air Fibre infrastructure relies on wireless connectivity between a customer’s home and a base station connected to fibre backhaul.

Excuse me?

 

[William1102]

Excuse me?

Interesting

 

[Solitude]

Air fibre.

 

[wingnut771]

It's a hit but nobody has it?

 

[JustAsk]

“We believe that due to the fact that it bears four core traits similar to fibre – namely low latency, high speed, unlimited data and guaranteed throughputs – it is reasonable to use ‘Fibre’ in the name, using ‘Air’ to clarify any misconceptions,” Supersonic stated.

What i said, but some clever mybb okes focused on the noun and ignore the modifier.

Excuse me?

True, but to be fair, aerial was not exactly the right word to use. One can understand the assumption that it is wireless...fibre by aerial. Above ground/overhead fibre is/was a better term.

 

[Joseph matane]

Excuse me?

This won't sit well with evotel because aerial Fibre is Fibre they even use same Optical cable to connect subscribers unlike Air Fibre where last mile is wireless

 

[Joseph matane]

Am little worried am new sites roll out, will all sites get 10Gbps no matter that area economy?

 

[Joseph matane]

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Air fibre.

Correct me if am confused but this seems like Aerial Fibre set up not wireless Air Fibre

 

[wingnut771]

Will it be a hit during loadshedding?

 

[Solitude]

Correct me if am confused but this seems like Aerial Fibre set up not wireless Air Fibre

Yeah, it's a rather silly attempt at a joke.

 

[charlieharper]

Yeah, it's a rather silly attempt at a joke.

Don't worry, I chuckled.

 

[Joseph matane]

I heard Oudtshoorn is part of first areas to get Air Fibre

 

[Joseph matane]

Follow this:
Supersonic Air Fibre Speed tests and service reviews
Come May 2021

 

[Swa]

What i said, but some clever mybb okes focused on the noun and ignore the modifier.

True, but to be fair, aerial was not exactly the right word to use. One can understand the assumption that it is wireless...fibre by aerial. Above ground/overhead fibre is/was a better term.

It's not being clever but correct. If I don't have the fibre line coming into my house I don't have fibre or else every wisp or wireless service provider can call their product fibre as well. Saying air fibre is like saying dry water.

With that said I am highly tempted by this. It's a toss up between Rain and Supersonic. Only problem is with Rain I still need another connection so it will cost R333. This is R399 but I'd prefer to have some backup as well so unless that's payg I'd have to pay R482.

I will sign up with this just to provide some competition to Vumatel.

 

[McGuywer]

Which areas?

 

[ld13]

This is FTTC at best. Calling it Air Fibre is wrong - your average joe that calls his internet "wifi" will think he is buying a fibre service.

 

[Rocket-Boy]

I dont care how any ISP spins this, if it isnt a fibre link then it isnt fibre.

 

[Tacet]

This is FTTC at best. Calling it Air Fibre is wrong - your average joe that calls his internet "wifi" will think he is buying a fibre service.

Agreed. It's like calling ADSL fibre. The MSAN's uplink may be fibre, but that doesn't change anything about the last mile being copper.

 

[blunt]

this all means nothing until it's actually live and being used by a decent amount of people