Price cuts and speed upgrades from Openserve

[Jamie McKane]

Price cuts and speed upgrades from Openserve

Openserve has made major changes to its wholesale offerings, offering significant speed upgrades at no additional charge to customers.

In a mail sent to ISPs seen by MyBroadbnd, the network operator announced that it would be implementing connection speed upgrades across its fibre and copper products.

 

[MaisonP]

I wish MFN would do the same..... ffs!

 

[RudderVator]

wow! Awesome news.

 

[justplain]

Any idea if Vuma, Octotel etc will do anything similar ? Would be lekker... be lekker guys, be lekker.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Best FNO in the country

 

[derp90]

What does this mean for ISP pricing? Will they increase the price of my 50Mbps offering? Or just limit me to 50Mbps at the same price?

 

[gboy]

Hopefully Vuma/SADV get in on the act, the just the 10mb from Cool Ideas is getting expensive, here you getting 25mb for far cheaper.

 

[HartsockZA]

Wondering if Mind The speed will upgrade me Ooo man I love it

 

[r00igev@@r]

I'm happy with 50 but I'll have a double.

 

[Koosie]

Wondering if Mind The speed will upgrade me Ooo man I love it

Doubt it, they were one of the only ISPs to not have the double speed promotion.

 

[Totempole]

Would be nice if Telkom ADSL users got the same upgrades.

 

[holler]

Wow!
Great news for all fixed line users on Openserve. I guess the temporary line speed upgrades during lock down indicated to them that this is feasible.

 

[Greglsh]

Ummmmmm anything Vumatel, very quiet over there.

 

[Polymathic]

Looks like Telkom(Openserve) are going to be extremely aggressive this financial year

 

[r4nd0m]

Ummmmmm anything Vumatel, very quiet over there.

RocketNet did send out a price update a week ago.

Pricing pretty much stayed the same, but asynchronous packages were falling away. If you were on them, you'd be bumped up to the sync package, which would cost more.

Package	Monthly Fee (Existing)	Monthly Fee (1st March 2021)
Apollo 10/2	R645.00	Discontinued
Apollo 10/10	R725.00	R725.00
Apollo 20/2	R825.00	Discontinued
Apollo 20/20	R895.00	R895.00
Apollo 50/5	R995.00	Discontinued
Apollo 50/50	R1,045.00	R1,045.00
Apollo 100/10	R1,195.00	Discontinued
Apollo 100/100	R1,245.00	R1,245.00
Apollo 200/20	R1,395.00	Discontinued
Apollo 200/200	R1,495.00	R1,495.00
Apollo 1000/100	R1,495.00	R1,495.00
New pricing valid until February 2022

 

[S.Claus]

No 1000/500 or 500/250 ? Not complaining about the price updates

 

[Stiffmeister]

So if I'm on a HomeUnlimited 20mb premium package from Telkom (I have my voice line), will I be upgraded to 40mb or no?

 

[swim]

Doubt it, they were one of the only ISPs to not have the double speed promotion.

Yes Minthespeed did double the speed.

Dear N******* ******** As a Vumatel customer your line speeds are about to be upgraded for free! (yay!) Here are the terms of your line upgrade Vumatel will automatically upgrade your line - no need to submit anything. · Start Date: 1 April 2020 · End Date: 31 May 2020 Line Speed upgrade: Please refer to details below

Current Service	New Service
10/10 Mbps	20/20 Mbps
20/20 Mbps	50/50 Mbps
50/50 Mbps	100/100 Mbps
100/100 Mbps	200/200 Mbps
200/200 Mbps	Remains unchanged

 

[Lawnchairman]

Will Openserve work as an ISP on the Metrofibre backbone?

 

[Sabatius_the_Great]

What does this mean for ISP pricing? Will they increase the price of my 50Mbps offering? Or just limit me to 50Mbps at the same price?

I think they would charge you less. But going with how companies operate to maximize their profits, I guess they'd rather increase your speed and charge you the same as before. Just my opinion.