ISP prices are up?

[BamboozledAttorney]

Clearly there is a price increase on Afrihost's website.

Current:


End of December 2021:


From the looks of it, even Openserve as an FNO got a price increase.

Current:


From last year:


Same with Frogfoot:

Current:


From last year:


Anyone knows if other ISPs are going to do an increase?

 

[KillerOnDrugX]

This happened in the last 2 days for Openserve since I upgraded my speed on the 19th. Didn't receive any notification about it though. @AfriNatic can you advise?

 

[AfriNatic]

Clearly there is a price increase on Afrihost's website.

Current:
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End of December 2021:
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From the looks of it, even Openserve as an FNO got a price increase.

Current:
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From last year:
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Same with Frogfoot:

Current:
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From last year:
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Anyone knows if other ISPs are going to do an increase?

This happened in the last 2 days for Openserve since I upgraded my speed on the 19th. Didn't receive any notification about it though. @AfriNatic can you advise?

Hi,

Yes unfortunately there is a price increase coming in. Existing clients will get a mail about the increase soon.

 

[madeinjapan]

I received an email from Mweb stating that openserve has upgraded my product so I will go from 50/25 to 50/50 and be paying R10 more per month.

 

[kissingmybbgoodbye]

Looks like you can get 500/250 now through openserve ?

 

[Lupus]

Since I'm going back in February, my company will stop paying sigh gotten used to almost 2 years of not paying

 

[AfriNatic]

Looks like you can get 500/250 now through openserve ?

Yes. Openserve has introduced a 500/250 offering and it's very well priced.

 

[xodosman123]

I received an email from Mweb stating that openserve has upgraded my product so I will go from 50/25 to 50/50 and be paying R10 more per month.

That is worth it. Vumatel is really ripping me off.

 

[WishfulThinking]

"ISP prices are up?".

Even more reason for me to stay on LTE, the prices of which dropped a few months ago (some packages on MTN through Axxess & Afrihost, for example, and / or more data).

Yet fibre operators keep pushing prices up.
I'm aware in years gone by they were much more expensive, but now they're going up again, at the same time more people signing up to fibre.

Beats me as to why, but guess it's South Africa's version of Economics 101.

I'm primarily referring to entry level packages, which in my view are quite exorbitant.

 

[Aquiva]

Is this a Fiber provider increase or ISP?...doesn't matter... the uptake of fiber over the last two years should drive prices down. And for the amount of time Frogfoot was unstable or down....they would have a cheek to increase their prices!!

 

[Aquiva]

I received an email from Mweb stating that openserve has upgraded my product so I will go from 50/25 to 50/50 and be paying R10 more per month.

Afrihost+Frogfoot is going up 5-6% on the two entry level packages without any change in speed!

 

[AfriNatic]

Afrihost+Frogfoot is going up 5-6% on the two entry level packages without any change in speed!

Hi,

We have a fixed increase that is taking place. Clients that has a monthly fee of less than R970 will get a R30 increase in price and clients that has a monthly fee of more than R970 will get a R50 price increase.

Clients on one of the below packages or FNO's are excluded.

Vuma Reach
Mitchells Fibre
Openserve Web Connect
Frogfoot Air
MetroFibre Networks (including MetroFibre complexes)
Openserve 25/25 solution

We tried to avoid increasing prices at all cost. If there is a shift in operational costs or reductions in wholesale pricing we will revise prices.

 

[deweyzeph]

Still a bargain if you ask me. Fibre is worth every penny.

 

[Apogee]

Looks like you can get 500/250 now through openserve ?

Aye mate,

Have been available for a while now.

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[Herr der Verboten]

Still a bargain if you ask me. Fibre is worth every penny.

Send the complainers back to dsl or 56k.

 

[RocketNet-Rep]

We are happy to announce that RocketNet will not be having a price increase this year.

 

[e4et]

Eish.
Going to have to drop down to 30/3 from the 30/30 I'm currently on with Afrihost and FF.
R100 difference.

 

[RocketNet-Rep]

Eish.
Going to have to drop down to 30/3 from the 30/30 I'm currently on with Afrihost and FF.
R100 difference.

In my opinion all Fibre Network Operators needs to only supply synchronous line speeds to their ISP partners, there should not have to be a compromise on quality of the connection.