{"id":6960,"date":"2009-02-16T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-16T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:07:00","slug":"broadband-pricing-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/6960-broadband-pricing-comparison.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband pricing comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

iBurst recently announced significant tariff reductions on its WiMAX product offerings effective from February 2009.  The price for a 512Kbps WiMax service with 5GB shaped bandwidth is now R690 a month, down from the previous R855 a month.  For the same service with 10GB shaped bandwidth it is R970, down from R1199 a month.<\/p>\n

The price of a 1 Mbps WiMax service with 5GB of bandwidth is reduced from R995 to R760 per month while the 10GB option will now cost R1040 instead of R1335.  Similar price cuts were made for iBurst’s WiMax Broadband service with unshaped bandwidth and iBurst WiMax Assured service offerings.<\/p>\n

These are significant price reductions, but how does iBurst’s Broadband WiMax service compare with similar offerings from Neotel, Telkom, Vodacom or even its own iBurst Wireless service?<\/p>\n

The table below gives a basic broadband pricing comparison for 5GB and 10GB offerings.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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5 GB Basic Month-to-Month Pricing<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Service<\/font><\/span><\/td>\nDownlink Speed<\/font><\/span><\/td>\nUplink<\/font><\/span><\/td>\nPrice<\/font><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neotel NeoConnect Prime<\/td>\n2400 Kbps<\/td>\n64 Kbps<\/td>\n499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom WiMax<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n256 Kbps<\/td>\n590<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iBurst Wireless<\/td>\n1024 Kbps<\/td>\n384 Kbps<\/td>\n599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DSL 512<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n256 Kbps<\/td>\n676<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iBurst WiMax<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iBurst WiMax<\/td>\n1024 Kbps<\/td>\n1024 Kbps<\/td>\n760<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DSL 4 Mbps<\/td>\n4096 Kbps<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n766<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom HSDPA<\/td>\n3600 Kbps<\/td>\n1800 Kbps<\/td>\n989<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10 GB Basic Month-to-Month Pricing<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neotel NeoConnect Prime<\/td>\n2400 Kbps<\/td>\n64 Kbps<\/td>\n599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neotel NeoFlex<\/td>\n3200 Kbps<\/td>\n1800 Kbps<\/td>\n699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom WiMax<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n256 Kbps<\/td>\n940<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iBurst WiMax<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n970<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iBurst Wireless<\/td>\n1024 Kbps<\/td>\n384 Kbps<\/td>\n999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DSL 512<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n256 Kbps<\/td>\n1026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iBurst WiMax<\/td>\n1024 Kbps<\/td>\n1024 Kbps<\/td>\n1040<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DSL 4 Mbps<\/td>\n4096 Kbps<\/td>\n512 Kbps<\/td>\n1116<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom HSDPA<\/td>\n3600 Kbps<\/td>\n1800 Kbps<\/td>\n1989<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Broadband pricing discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does iBurst\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new WiMax pricing compare to similar offerings from Neotel, Telkom, iBurst Wireless and Vodacom HSDPA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}