Prepaid fibre - does it exist?

[Milano]

Do any ISP's offer the ability to just buy prepaid fibre per GB without monthly fees?

 

[savage]

Doubt you'll see that. They need to recoup the investments made to get the fiber to you...

 

[Milano]

They can still recoup at R100 or R200 per GB surely. Just charge more for prepaid to make it up. AirBnB venues and so forth need this pricing model to pass the choice/costs to the occupant. The monthly model does not work for this.

 

[savage]

They can still recoup at R100 or R200 per GB surely.

Even if you sell at R500 per GB, you're not going to recoup, because in cases like yours, you'll purchase a few GBs once in a blue moon. So instead of getting a steady R400 / R500 / R600 per month, now the ISP faces a situation where he's going to get R200 / R300 / R400 MAYBE once every two or three months, IF even that much. ISPs also need to pay the infrastructure providers to "lease" the connection, so there's a good possibility of them actually paying for your line, but not getting any income what so ever from it. Let's completely forget about what it actually cost to get the fiber there in the first place...

In your case, I'd get a uncapped line, which I know cost X. X over 30 days is Y, increase the price for the accommodation by Y per night and give your clients free, uncapped internet access. You'll of course, need to make sure you're fully booked so that the cost of the connection is covered, but that's irrelevant because fiber or not you'd still want to have your place fully booked regardless.

 

[chunk10]

They can still recoup at R100 or R200 per GB surely. Just charge more for prepaid to make it up. AirBnB venues and so forth need this pricing model to pass the choice/costs to the occupant. The monthly model does not work for this.

Wouldn't bother looking at any place if it doesn't offer free wifi.

 

[Milano]

Even if you sell at R500 per GB, you're not going to recoup, because in cases like yours, you'll purchase a few GBs once in a blue moon. So instead of getting a steady R400 / R500 / R600 per month, now the ISP faces a situation where he's going to get R200 / R300 / R400 MAYBE once every two or three months, IF even that much. ISPs also need to pay the infrastructure providers to "lease" the connection, so there's a good possibility of them actually paying for your line, but not getting any income what so ever from it. Let's completely forget about what it actually cost to get the fiber there in the first place...

In your case, I'd get a uncapped line, which I know cost X. X over 30 days is Y, increase the price for the accommodation by Y per night and give your clients free, uncapped internet access. You'll of course, need to make sure you're fully booked so that the cost of the connection is covered, but that's irrelevant because fiber or not you'd still want to have your place fully booked regardless.

True enough yes it looks like I will have no option but to go that route. Will try survey whether non-techies would prefer the existing DStv or Uncapped + Netflix. Could maybe offset some costs that way.

 

[m0zy]

Do any ISP's offer the ability to just buy prepaid fibre per GB without monthly fees?

Yes, you can use Axxess Prepaid data on any Openserve Fibre installations. But it does become a bit more pricy.

https://www.axxess.co.za/dsl/prepaid

 

[PBCool]

Problem is that there is a constant line fee to pay, formulating a perGB fee service is complicated as you always need to cover the base line fee. And to disconnect/reconnect is more costly than running a line for the month.