{"id":320199,"date":"2019-09-19T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=320199"},"modified":"2019-09-19T09:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:12:57","slug":"mtn-fixed-lte-crushes-telkom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/320199-mtn-fixed-lte-crushes-telkom.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN fixed-LTE crushes Telkom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supersonic recently launched<\/strong><\/a> its new fixed-LTE products in South Africa, which are available on a month-to-month basis or on a 24-month contract.<\/p>\n

The MTN-owned ISP aims to compete with Telkom by offering consumers month-to-month fixed-LTE products at competitive prices, and has stated that it expects rapid adoption of its new products, especially by customers without fibre coverage.<\/p>\n

Supersonic’s fixed-LTE offering currently comprises three fixed-LTE packages, each of which includes Anytime and Night Owl data.<\/p>\n

They are available as SIM-only offerings or with a compatible router which is priced at a flat rate of R1,699, or R69 per month over 24 months.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that MTN has effectively launched a wholesale fixed-LTE product, with Supersonic as its first client.<\/p>\n

This means that South Africans could expect additional MTN-based fixed-LTE products being offered through more ISPs in future.<\/p>\n

Fixed-LTE shake-up<\/h3>\n

The launch of these offerings comes at a tumultuous time in the consumer fixed-LTE market.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, both Rain and Cell C discontinued their fixed-LTE products, leaving Telkom as the only major fixed-LTE provider offering products to consumers through third-party ISPs.<\/p>\n

Rain opted to discontinue<\/strong><\/a> its fixed-LTE offering from November 2018 due to capacity network constraints, although it still offered services to existing customers.<\/p>\n

More recently, Cell C announced<\/strong><\/a> that it was terminating its fixed-LTE services through Internet Solutions, shutting down the product’s availability to other ISPs.<\/p>\n

Cell C is in a tough financial position, and it said it chose to discontinue its fixed-LTE offering as it was no longer profitable<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three weeks after Cell C shut down its fixed-LTE offering, MTN entered the market with its fixed-LTE offering through Supersonic.<\/p>\n

This means that users who want to buy a fixed-LTE package must choose between MTN and Telkom products, taking into account the packages and pricing from each operator.<\/p>\n

MTN vs Telkom<\/h3>\n

We compared the pricing for the available fixed-LTE packages available from Telkom and MTN through ISPs.<\/p>\n

Only month-to-month, SIM-only packages were included in this comparison. We used pricing from Supersonic and Webafrica for MTN and Telkom fixed-LTE respectively.<\/p>\n

The table below shows that while Telkom’s smaller fixed-LTE packages compete with MTN’s 120GB product, MTN fixed-LTE through Supersonic is notably cheaper than Telkom fixed-LTE for larger data amounts.<\/p>\n

It is also important to consider MTN’s network quality, which is significantly better<\/a><\/strong> than Telkom’s, according to the Q2 2019 Mobile Network Quality Report<\/a><\/strong> released by MyBroadband Insights.<\/p>\n

Across the country, MTN has an average download speed of 35.90Mbps compared to Telkom’s 23.07Mbps. This means that on the whole, the fixed-LTE customer experience should be better on MTN’s network.<\/p>\n

The fixed-LTE pricing for both networks is detailed below.<\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Month-to-month Fixed-LTE<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Package<\/strong><\/td>\nAnytime Data<\/strong><\/td>\nNight Data<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice pm<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom 20GB<\/strong><\/td>\n20GB<\/td>\n10GB<\/td>\nR249<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom 40GB<\/strong><\/td>\n40GB<\/td>\n20GB<\/td>\nR359<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN 120GB<\/strong><\/td>\n60GB<\/td>\n60GB<\/td>\nR399<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom 70GB<\/strong><\/td>\n70GB<\/td>\n50GB<\/td>\nR459<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN 200GB<\/strong><\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\nR599<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom 100GB<\/strong><\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\nR759<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN 300GB<\/strong><\/td>\n150GB<\/td>\n150GB<\/td>\nR799<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom 200GB<\/strong><\/td>\n200GB<\/td>\n200GB<\/td>\nR1,059<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read: MTN launches new \u201csharing\u201d packages for South African businesses<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTN’s new fixed-LTE products available through Supersonic crush competing packages from Telkom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":137186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[355,48812,35,42,53051,2508],"class_list":["post-320199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-cell-c","tag-fixed-lte","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-supersonic","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}