Telkom Internet recently launched their ADSL Top-Up products which allow subscribers to purchase additional bandwidth after being capped. Telkom charges R 64.76 per GB for standard shaped SAIX bandwidth and R 113.34 per GB for unshaped bandwidth. Local bandwidth retails for R 25.55 per GB.<\/p>\n
Axxess – a local ISP that has become well known for their ADSL prepaid bandwidth products – allows subscribers to top-up for R 59.00 per GB for shaped SAIX bandwidth and R 99.00 per month for unshaped bandwidth.<\/p>\n
The bandwidth from these accounts expires at the end of the month which is a similar scenario to TelkomInternet’s top-up products. Axxess do however offer bandwidth rollover products at a slightly higher rate.<\/p>\n
Web Africa, voted ISP of the Year in 2007, also has a top-up facility at R 70.00 per GB. They however do not make any distinction between expiring and non-expiring bandwidth which explains the higher charge. Unshaped bandwidth from Web Africa costs R 125.00 per GB.<\/p>\n
Cybersmart, an ISP which has opted to charge for bandwidth according to access speed, offers a 3 GB top-up account to their DSL 384 subscribers at R 189.00 per month, and their tariffs increase to R 259.00 for DSL 4 Mbps users. Unshaped bandwidth starts at R 99.00 per GB for DSL 384 customers and goes up to R 111.00 for DSL 4 Mbps users.<\/p>\n
Local only bandwidth<\/strong><\/p>\n For local top-up bandwidth Axxess charges R 15.00 per GB on a monthly basis and R 17.00 per GB for pre-paid bandwidth. Web Africa charges R 19.00 per GB.<\/p>\n Cybersmart recently launched their CapExtender product where DSL 384 subscribers can purchase 3 GB of local SAIX bandwidth at R 35.00 per month and 20 GB of local bandwidth at R 74.00 per month. <\/p>\n It should however be noted that Internet Solutions’ clients generally receive free local bandwidth up to 30 GB with any standard per GB ADSL account purchased. <\/p>\n TelkomInternet subscribers also receive free local bandwidth – ranging between 10 GB and 40 GB depending on their account type – with their standard ADSL accounts.<\/p>\n