Openweb Platinum ADSL Uncapped service
Openweb today announced the planned launch of its Platinum Uncapped products, aimed at consumers who want to maximize the performance of their ADSL accounts.
“Our Platinum ADSL network was designed for users who require superior, business critical connectivity. Our Platinum Uncapped products run on a World Class Business ADSL network, where we take the meaning of ‘Always-On’ to heart. With fail-over accounts at the clients disposal, ‘going down’ will not be an option,” says Openweb founder Keoma Wright.
Wright promises Platinum ADSL Uncapped subscribers the “lowest contention ratios, an A-Grade business critical network and a fibre international backbone”.
Uncapped Pricing
Despite the promises about business quality services, full redundancy and a great network, the significantly higher pricing for the new Openweb Platinum ADSL Uncapped offering is likely to scare off many consumers.
Shaped accounts start at R899 for a 384 Kbps service, and increase to R1489 for a 512 Kbps service and R2699 for a 4 Mbps service.
Unshaped accounts are priced at R999 for a 384 Kbps service, R1689 for a 512 Kbps service and R2899 for a 4 Mbps service.
The Openweb Platinum ADSL Uncapped prices are significantly higher than MWEB’s R219, R299 and R539 for uncapped 384 Kbps, 512 Kbps and 4 Mbps offerings respectively.
Openweb’s Platinum packages are also more expensive than MWEB’s unshaped business accounts priced at R499, R699 and R1999 for uncapped and unshaped 384 Kbps, 512 Kbps and 4 Mbps services.
Wright explains that the Platinum Shaped option has a much lower contention ratio than the cheap consumer uncapped services. “If you look at the Shaped service: Shaping is only evident when the network runs at capacity, which hardly ever happens, as upgrades are implemented continuously,” says Wright.
“One cannot use a consumer based product for Business critical applications. Platinum uncapped also provide users with a fail-over ADSL account in the case of any downtime on the main network.”
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