The Ferrari of Internet connections in South Africa pricing compared
Among prominent South African ISPs, RSAWeb and Webafrica offer consumers the most affordable 1 Gbps fibre packages across four of the country’s biggest fibre networks, a MyBroadband analysis shows.
We compared the 1 Gbps fibre products from Afrihost, Axxess, Cool Ideas, Mweb, RSAWeb, and Webafrica across four open-access fibre network operators (FNOs).
The FNOs used for comparison were Vumatel, Octotel, Frogfoot, and MetroFibre.
To simplify the tables below, we ranked according to price and disregarded upload speeds provided it was at least 100Mbps. We also excluded any promotional offerings.
Our results indicated that Webafrica’s 1 Gbps service was the most affordable option on Vumatel’s network at R1,399 per month, followed by Mweb’s package for R50 more at R1,449.
RSAWeb offered the cheapest Vumatel service with a 500Mbps upload speed.
RSAWeb was also the cheapest option on sister company Octotel’s network at R1,375 per month, with Webafrica and Mweb’s offerings following closely at R1,399.
Mweb’s 1Gbps service on Frogfoot had the lowest price of all the packages in this comparison at R1,299 a month.
However, this was also the only service in Frogfoot’s charts with a 100 Mbps upload speed. The rest all offer symmetrical speeds with 1 Gbps uploads.
For R200 more per month, you can get ten times the upload speed from Mweb on Frogfoot.
If only symmetrical packages were considered, Webafrica’s Frogfoot offering was the cheapest among the ISPs compared, coming in at R1,349 per month.
MetroFibre was the most expensive fibre network operator for 1 Gbps on average, closely followed by Vumatel.
MetroFibre’s cheapest 1 Gbps product came from RSAWeb for R1,695 a month, with Webafrica and Mweb’s packages in second place at R1,699.
| Vumatel | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ISP | Download speed (Mbps) | Upload speed (Mbps) | Price per month |
| Webafrica | 1,000 | 180 | R1,399 |
| Mweb | 1,000 | 200 | R1,449 |
| RSAWeb | 1,000 | 200 | R1,495 |
| Axxess | 1,000 | 200 | R1,495 |
| Afrihost | 1,000 | 200 | R1,497 |
| Cool Ideas | 1,000 | 200 | R1,499 |
| RSAWeb | 1,000 | 500 | R2,095 |
| Cool Ideas | 1,000 | 500 | R2,299 |
| Axxess | 1,000 | 500 | R2,345 |
| Afrihost | 1,000 | 500 | R2,347 |
| Octotel | |||
| ISP | Download speed (Mbps) | Upload speed (Mbps) | Price per month |
| RSAWeb | 1,000 | 200 | R1,375 |
| Webafrica | 1,000 | 100 | R1,399 |
| Mweb | 1,000 | 100 | R1,399 |
| Axxess | 1,000 | 200 | R1,435 |
| Afrihost | 1,000 | 100 | R1,447 |
| Cool Ideas | 1,000 | 200 | R1,699 |
| Frogfoot | |||
| ISP | Download speed (Mbps) | Upload speed (Mbps) | Price per month |
| Mweb | 1,000 | 100 | R1,299 |
| Webafrica | 1,000 | 1,000 | R1,349 |
| Mweb | 1,000 | 1,000 | R1,499 |
| Afrihost | 1,000 | 1,000 | R1,574 |
| Axxess | 1,000 | 1,000 | R1,595 |
| RSAWeb | 1,000 | 1,000 | R1,649 |
| Cool Ideas | 1,000 | 1,000 | R1,699 |
| MetroFibre | |||
| ISP | Download speed (Mbps) | Upload speed (Mbps) | Price per month |
| RSAWeb | 1,000 | 250 | R1,695 |
| Webafrica | 1,000 | 250 | R1,699 |
| Mweb | 1,000 | 250 | R1,699 |
| Afrihost | 1,000 | 250 | R1,797 |
| Cool Ideas | 1,000 | 250 | R1,799 |
| Axxess | 1,024 | 250 | R1,995 |
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