Vumatel launches speed upgrade promotion

[Asgard85]

Huh? You are literally getting something for nothing.
Sheesh, it's only an upgrade for effectively two months, and people have done nothing but complain. Enjoy the upgrade THAT COSTS YOU NOTHING, you will be downgraded at the end of August.

I think that most who are questioning it are rightly suspicious.

This does not appear to be a simple “free upgrade” and looks much more like the classic marketing tactic of trying to induce a false “need” in your customers in order to sell more. It looks like a forced try-and-maybe-you-will-buy scenario.

It could be helpful, perhaps, to view it in your terms as a freebie but it is far more likely that this is a manipulation by Vumatel, a company that is already expensive, and I think that is what people are actually feeling uncomfortable about.

 

[Kosmik]

Vumatel will upgrade the base line speed. If ISPs choose not to offer the speed increase they can essentially cap the speeds to the current line speeds if they have the hardware to do so.

Yeah, that was my thought. Is this current or I think they said from 13? Tested my link this morning, down is being chomped by someone busy streamin but up is slightly over 54/53. Testing on wifi though but the gap between down and up is consistent with streaming for me so dont think its live yet, differant isp than Afri.

 

[AfriNatic]

I'm with Afrihost on 200 up and down, will I get 400 up and down for July and August?

Yes we will be offering the promo to Afrihost clients. Communication regarding the promo will be sent to exisitng clients soon.

 

[Polymathic]

I think that most who are questioning it are rightly suspicious.

This does not appear to be a simple “free upgrade” and looks much more like the classic marketing tactic of trying to induce a false “need” in your customers in order to sell more. It looks like a forced try-and-maybe-you-will-buy scenario.

It could be helpful, perhaps, to view it in your terms as a freebie but it is far more likely that this is a manipulation by Vumatel, a company that is already expensive, and I think that is what people are actually feeling uncomfortable about.

I feel like they are taking a play out of Telkoms book. They offered a promotional free upgrade on speeds for their ADSL a couple years back which eventually became permanent a couple months after the promotion started.

 

[Asgard85]

I feel like they are taking a play out of Telkoms book. They offered a promotional free upgrade on speeds for their ADSL a couple years back which eventually became permanent a couple months after the promotion started.

We can hope, but why the limited time frame then? Why not just do it upfront and bask in the glow of all the goodwill it would generate instead of doing what they have done which is to look shady, when they already have an image problem based on their costs compared to their competitors?

 

[STORMERSFAN]

Hold thumbs that they decide to make a permanent move.. Entry level speed should be more than 20 Meg in my opinion

 

[Progenix Oj101]

I just moved my PC from a 1 Gbit port to a 10/100 port so I can avoid the "need" to upgrade

 

[Sapphiron]

Hold thumbs that they decide to make a permanent move.. Entry level speed should be more than 20 Meg in my opinion

At the prices they are charging, absolutely. But I think most people would prefer to save R150pm

 

[r00igev@@r]

No only if they can improve their stability.

 

[OhYeah84]

...a couple of months...wow!

 

[noxibox]

We can hope, but why the limited time frame then? Why not just do it upfront and bask in the glow of all the goodwill it would generate instead of doing what they have done which is to look shady, when they already have an image problem based on their costs compared to their competitors?

For now they probably don't need to care because most of their customers don't have another fibre option.

 

[Soul Assassin]

I was just about to move to Openserve but free speed is free speed.

 

[Mike Angelo]

Another scam from Vumatel. They did this towards the end of 2020. Then they were so "kind" as to extend it, then they made it permanent at no cost until the increase in 2021 which worked out nearly double what I was paying in 2019/2021 with no option to downgrade. Cancelled immediately. Unfortunately I moved now they are the only fibre provider available so stuck with the *******$

 

[xefor]

Great stuff, free speed!

 

[Adhvik]

so do you get downgraded after the end of august?

But I see with Axxess the promotion is until end of September and for Cool ideas end of August

 

[Neuk_]

I think that most who are questioning it are rightly suspicious.

This does not appear to be a simple “free upgrade” and looks much more like the classic marketing tactic of trying to induce a false “need” in your customers in order to sell more. It looks like a forced try-and-maybe-you-will-buy scenario.

It could be helpful, perhaps, to view it in your terms as a freebie but it is far more likely that this is a manipulation by Vumatel, a company that is already expensive, and I think that is what people are actually feeling uncomfortable about.

It is 100% a marketing campaign but I still don't understand why people are getting all uppity about it? Use the extra speed, don't use the extra speed, sign up at the end, stay on your current package at the end, basically do whatever you want as there is no gun held to your head to do anything.

 

[Adhvik]

If it takes two weeks to process the speed upgrade, then the promotion is effectively 4 weeks.

but Axxess is until end of Sept so I wonder why its all different for ISPs on Vumatel

 

[Cactus]

I was just about to move to Openserve but free speed is free speed.

OpenServe is still better in terms of stability and overall network

 

[STORMERSFAN]

...a couple of months...wow!

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

 

[wingnut771]

It is 100% a marketing campaign but I still don't understand why people are getting all uppity about it? Use the extra speed, don't use the extra speed, sign up at the end, stay on your current package at the end, basically do whatever you want as there is no gun held to your head to do anything.

The "uppity" part is this:

Openserve 25mb: R495
Metrofibre 20mb: R497

Vumatel 20mb: R797