{"id":445800,"date":"2022-05-31T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=445800"},"modified":"2022-05-31T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:16:02","slug":"the-ferrari-of-internet-connections-in-south-africa-pricing-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/445800-the-ferrari-of-internet-connections-in-south-africa-pricing-compared.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ferrari of Internet connections in South Africa pricing compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among prominent South African ISPs, RSAWeb and Webafrica offer consumers the most affordable 1 Gbps fibre packages across four of the country’s biggest fibre networks, a MyBroadband analysis shows.<\/p>\n

We compared the 1 Gbps fibre products from Afrihost, Axxess, Cool Ideas, Mweb, RSAWeb, and Webafrica across four open-access fibre network operators (FNOs).<\/p>\n

The FNOs used for comparison were Vumatel, Octotel, Frogfoot, and MetroFibre.<\/p>\n

To simplify the tables below, we ranked according to price and disregarded upload speeds provided it was at least 100Mbps. We also excluded any promotional offerings.<\/p>\n

Our results indicated that Webafrica’s 1 Gbps service was the most affordable option on Vumatel’s network at R1,399 per month, followed by Mweb’s package for R50 more at R1,449.<\/p>\n

RSAWeb offered the cheapest Vumatel service with a 500Mbps upload speed.<\/p>\n

RSAWeb was also the cheapest option on sister company Octotel’s network at R1,375 per month, with Webafrica and Mweb’s offerings following closely at R1,399.<\/p>\n

Mweb’s 1Gbps service on Frogfoot had the lowest price of all the packages in this comparison at R1,299 a month.<\/p>\n

However, this was also the only service in Frogfoot’s charts with a 100 Mbps upload speed. The rest all offer symmetrical speeds with 1 Gbps uploads.<\/p>\n

For R200 more per month, you can get ten times the upload speed from Mweb on Frogfoot.<\/p>\n

If only symmetrical packages were considered, Webafrica’s Frogfoot offering was the cheapest among the ISPs compared, coming in at R1,349 per month.<\/p>\n

MetroFibre was the most expensive fibre network operator for 1 Gbps on average, closely followed by Vumatel.<\/p>\n

MetroFibre’s cheapest 1 Gbps product came from RSAWeb for R1,695 a month, with Webafrica and Mweb’s packages in second place at R1,699.<\/p>\n

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Vumatel<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice per month<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Webafrica<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n180<\/td>\nR1,399<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mweb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,449<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RSAWeb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,495<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,495<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cool Ideas<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RSAWeb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n500<\/td>\nR2,095<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cool Ideas<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n500<\/td>\nR2,299<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n500<\/td>\nR2,345<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n500<\/td>\nR2,347<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Octotel<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice per month<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RSAWeb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,375<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Webafrica<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n100<\/td>\nR1,399<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mweb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n100<\/td>\nR1,399<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,435<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n100<\/td>\nR1,447<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cool Ideas<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n200<\/td>\nR1,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frogfoot<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice per month<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mweb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n100<\/td>\nR1,299<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Webafrica<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\nR1,349<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mweb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\nR1,499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\nR1,574<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\nR1,595<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RSAWeb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\nR1,649<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cool Ideas<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\nR1,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MetroFibre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
ISP<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload speed (Mbps)<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice per month<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RSAWeb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n250<\/td>\nR1,695<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Webafrica<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n250<\/td>\nR1,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mweb<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n250<\/td>\nR1,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afrihost<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n250<\/td>\nR1,797<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cool Ideas<\/td>\n1,000<\/td>\n250<\/td>\nR1,799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Axxess<\/td>\n1,024<\/td>\n250<\/td>\nR1,995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
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Now read: Best fibre prices in South Africa \u2014 Herotel’s bold claims tested<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband compared the prices of 1\u00a0Gbps home fibre packages across four South African open-access networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":351135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1669,1765,25307,78552,20153,29952,35,28438,59717,213,30850,3398,25299,2508],"class_list":["post-445800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-afrihost","tag-axxess","tag-cool-ideas","tag-fibre-network-operator-fno","tag-fibre-to-the-home-ftth","tag-frogfoot","tag-headline","tag-internet-service-provider-isp","tag-metrofibre","tag-mweb","tag-octotel","tag-rsaweb","tag-vumatel","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445800"}],"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\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446274,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445800\/revisions\/446274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}