Supersonic Black Friday deals unveiled

[Jamie McKane]

Supersonic Black Friday deals unveiled

Supersonic will offer two Black Friday deals on its Home Broadband Fixed-LTE products this year.

These packages run on MTN's network and provide LTE/4G connectivity to a fixed address - such as a home or office.

 

[Archie1]

The FUP will probably be 1TB

 

[SilverCode]

The FUP will probably be 1TB

Even then it is a good deal. Afrihost uncapped FUP is also 1TB, and it is 3x more expensive.

I just wish we could see these kinds of prices on non fixed LTE. I would love to replace my roaming RAIN sim card with something that actually works.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

The FUP will probably be 1TB

If that is the case then its better than the Telkom 1TB deal .... I currently use MTN LTE & it flies at my house... I have ordered the Telkom deal to test (have a 7 day window to cancel). maybe @Jamie McKane can follow up on T&C's.

 

[Crumbl0x]

Keeping my eye on this one until the T&C's are revealed.

 

[Archie1]

If that is the case then its better than the Telkom 1TB deal .... I currently use MTN LTE & it flies at my house... I have ordered the Telkom deal to test (have a 7 day window to cancel). maybe @Jamie McKane can follow up on T&C's.

Reason I mentioned 1TB is because MTN already has such a product for around the same price. Only downside is that these Home LTE deals are locked to a tower so you can't really move around with it whereas with the Telkom one you can.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Reason I mentioned 1TB is because MTN already has such a product for around the same price. Only downside is that these Home LTE deals are locked to a tower so you can't really move around with it whereas with the Telkom one you can.

I was not aware that the Telkom deal was not Fixed LTE ... hmmm

 

[Totempole]

I was not aware that the Telkom deal was not Fixed LTE ... hmmm

It is and it isn't. It's supposed to be a fixed LTE product, but in reality it's implemented as regular Telkom Only non-roaming data. The SIM actually even connects via 3G as a backup at a lower throughout.

 

[McGuywer]

The ISP did not provide details on speed throttling or a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) for the uncapped package.

Without revealing this, I wouldn't get this.

 

[Apogee]

Without revealing this, I wouldn't get this.

This is for the 5G plan, so I think the 4G should be similar?

**Unlimited data Fair Use Policy of 200GB applies to MTN 5G data plans, throttled at 1Mbps once the fair use has been reached and 200GB Night Express (hard cap)."

 

[McGuywer]

This is for the 5G plan, so I think the 4G should be similar?

**Unlimited data Fair Use Policy of 200GB applies to MTN 5G data plans, throttled at 1Mbps once the fair use has been reached and 200GB Night Express (hard cap)."

Wow. Thats bad.
R1k for 200GB?

I’ll stick to Rain for now. Moving 1 Dec and hoping on awesome Fibre or 5G Black Friday specials.

 

[Crumbl0x]

This is for the 5G plan, so I think the 4G should be similar?

**Unlimited data Fair Use Policy of 200GB applies to MTN 5G data plans, throttled at 1Mbps once the fair use has been reached and 200GB Night Express (hard cap)."

yeah, I think this is the most likely scenario when the time comes around. Afrihost, which offers the same deal at 3x the price, has a FUP of 1TB, so something costing a third of that must naturally have 200-300GB. I would love to be proven wrong in the near future but I won't hold my breath. The current Black Friday extended 1TB deals from Telkom and MTN for R999 would still be leagues better in this case if I weren't frightened by a 36-month contract and potentially hidden gotcha's.

 

[Mawirepower]

This is for the 5G plan, so I think the 4G should be similar?

**Unlimited data Fair Use Policy of 200GB applies to MTN 5G data plans, throttled at 1Mbps once the fair use has been reached and 200GB Night Express (hard cap)."

There goes the catch!

 

[Polymathic]

It's probably the 1TB package but instead of having your Internet cut when you reach 1TB usage you'll be blessed with dialup speeds

 

[NeonNinja]

Is it really fixed? Can anyone confirm?

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

Most definitely the best bang for buck especially as it's month-month!!

The biggest question is what's Supersonic's customer service like? Also - which Huawei B618 (22d or 65d) will be best suited for MTN's LTE channels? @cavedog could you help?

 

[cavedog]

Most definitely the best bang for buck especially as it's month-month!!

The biggest question is what's Supersonic's customer service like? Also - which Huawei B618 (22d or 65d) will be best suited for MTN's LTE channels? @cavedog could you help?

Both should work fine with MTN which uses B!, B3 and B8

 

[Mawirepower]

Is it really fixed? Can anyone confirm?

Can confirm. It's so fixed to the extent that if you move the modem away from the first tower it connected to, you will have to call support to get reconnected.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Openweb also have an Uncapped LTE package ... but its FUP sux:

"4G Uncapped LTE-A is R1499 per month

Uncapped LTE from OpenWeb adheres to the following FUP: FUP - Up to 12Mbps until 200GB, then up to 6Mbps until 350GB, then up to 3Mbps for the rest of the month - resets on 1st of each month"

 

[Bakes007]

Most definitely the best bang for buck especially as it's month-month!!

The biggest question is what's Supersonic's customer service like? Also - which Huawei B618 (22d or 65d) will be best suited for MTN's LTE channels? @cavedog could you help?

Started off with being non existent been with them for close to a year, they have got increasingly better however there is only support from 7-7 nothing if you net goes down at 11pm

However if there FUP is decent ill go for this deal as reliability and speed is great and I live in a remote area

I use a B618