Most expensive ADSL data in SA
Capped and uncapped data prices have plummeted over the last three years, but not everyone is offering capped ADSL bundles at affordable rates.
With cheaper international bandwidth from SEACOM and EASSy, and with Telkom’s ADSL wholesale price cuts in April, the cost of ADSL data has plummeted from around R50 per GB in 2009, to well-below R20 per GB.
Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including FNB Connect, Cybersmart and Vox Telecom, are even offering their clients free gigabytes (anywhere between 1GB and 5GB per month).
However, some South African ISPs are still charging well-over R50 per GB for standard consumer ADSL access.
EDSL, for example, charges R 49.99 for a 1GB shaped ADSL account, and R84.99 for an unshaped 1GB data bundle. Vanilla is also charging R49 per GB for shaped ADSL data, and R87 per GB for unshaped data.
Southern Star Computers charges R59 for a 1GB shaped ADSL account, and the price increases to R99 per month for a 1GB unshaped account. Wandata Internet Solutions also charges R59 for a 1GB ADSL account.
Vodacom is charging R69 for a 1GB data bundle (R69 per GB), and R169 for a 3GB data bundle (R56 per GB).
Telkom’s price of R79 for a 1GB AllAccess ADSL account is also one of the highest rates in the country, but it should be noted that the company is also offering a 5GB account at R99 (R19.80 per GB) and a 10GB account at R149 (R14.90 per GB).
It should be noted that we only looked at consumer ADSL services for this comparison, and not high-availability and high-bandwidth business services (where the cost can be far higher than consumer services).
| Per-GB ADSL prices | |||
| ISP | Data included | Price | Price/GB |
| Free ADSL accounts | |||
| FNB Connect | 5GB | Free | Free |
| Cybersmart | 2GB | Free | Free |
| Vox Telecom | 1GB | Free | Free |
| Market related prices | |||
| Afrihost | 2GB | R29 | R15 |
| Web Africa | 2GB | R29 | R15 |
| Axxess | 3GB | R57 | R19 |
| Telkom | 10GB | R149 | R15 |
| High ADSL prices | |||
| Vanilla shaped | 1GB | R49 | R49 |
| Edsl shaped | 1GB | R49 | R49 |
| Southern Star Computers | 1GB | R59 | R59 |
| Wandata Internet Solutions | 1GB | R59 | R59 |
| Vodacom | 1GB | R69 | R69 |
| Telkom AllAccess | 1GB | R79 | R79 |
*Do you know of a more expensive ADSL service than the ones listed above? Please let us know in the comments section below.
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