Openweb today announced the planned launch of its Platinum Uncapped products, aimed at consumers who want to maximize the performance of their ADSL accounts. <\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Wright promises Platinum ADSL Uncapped subscribers the “lowest contention ratios, an A-Grade business critical network and a fibre international backbone”.<\/p>\n
Uncapped Pricing<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Unshaped accounts are priced at R999 for a 384 Kbps service, R1689 for a 512 Kbps service and R2899 for a 4 Mbps service.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n