The battle for broadband subscribers is intensifying, and consumers have the luxury of selecting the juiciest deal from competing broadband offerings.<\/p>\n
The ADSL ISP market is particularly competitive, and here savvy shoppers can score free bandwidth if they shop around.<\/p>\n
FNB Connect has for some time already offered new and existing FNB customers a ‘free top up’ when signing up to the service. “Sign up for Connect Talk and get a R10 FREE top up to your account or sign up for Connect Surf and get 1Gigabyte of data topped up to your account for FREE,” the FNB promotional material reads.<\/p>\n
FNB is however not the only company giving away free bandwidth. CNA’s Starcraft II promotion saw the company offering 3 GBs of free data with every game purchased, a very handy bundle for avid gamers. Vodacom has also discovered the consumer penchant for free stuff and they are giving their Broadband Advanced subscribers 1 GB of ‘midnight’ bandwidth free with every GB purchased.<\/p>\n
But the action is not all with the companies with the big marketing budgets, ISPs like Cybersmart are offering ADSL access<\/a> at slightly discounted rates than what consumers pay Telkom, but they are throwing in free data bundles – ranging between 1 GB and 3 GB depending on line speed – free of charge.<\/p>\n Web Africa on the other hand is throwing in a free gigabyte to sweeten the deal for ADSL subscribers who migrate their ADSL line to them.<\/p>\n Telkom, the incumbent operator, is even getting in on the act by bumping up their 3 GB ADSL data bundles to 5 GB and increasing their 5 GB bundles to 9 GB free of charge.<\/p>\n