100Mbps broadband prices: Telkom LTE A vs FTTH

Telkom recently announced that Parkview and Parkhurst would be the first suburbs in Johannesburg to receive its new 150Mbps LTE Advanced service.

Residents can trial Telkom’s new LTE Advanced service free of charge for 14 days, during which time they will receive an LTE router and 20GB of data.

The cost of the service after the trial is R1,399 for a 100GB monthly package. It is understood that additional packages will become available in December.

Curiously, Parkview and Parkhurst are two suburbs where residents joined forces with fibre infrastructure companies to roll-out fibre-to-the-home services.

Last week the Parkview Residents’ Association announced that it had selected Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) as its partner to deliver fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in Parkview and Greenside East.

This announcement followed a statement by Vumatel on 28 October 2014 that the first homes in Parkhurst had received access to a Gigabit per second fibre connection.

This raises the question: How does Telkom’s new LTE Advanced offering stack up against FTTH products in these areas? The following table answers that question (we’ve also included MTN’s FTTH).

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