Over the last few months there have been a few price moves in the ADSL ISP market, creating pressure on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to reduce their margins and come up with innovative offerings. The latest company to unveil new ADSL pricing is Cybersmart, an ISP which is well known for their innovative offerings and competitive rates.<\/p>\n
Cybersmart’s 3 GB data bundle prices will remain unchanged at R 125, R 185 and R 225 for usage on a 384 Kbps, 512 Kbps and 4 Mbps DSL line respectively. The ISP will however provide better value for money on its one-price ADSL offerings.<\/p>\n
When the new pricing kicks in a 384 Kbps DSL circuit (ADSL Access) and 2 GB of data will cost R 175.00, significantly cheaper than Telkom’s R 199.00 for a DSL 384 circuit and a 1 GB data bundle. The same service with a 4 GB data cap will cost R 258.00 per month, the same price as Telkom’s 2 GB service.<\/p>\n
Cybersmart’s 4 Mbps DSL service with a 5 GB cap will retail for R 544.00 per month, R 10 cheaper than the same offering from Telkom. It should however be noted that Telkom’s service includes 30 GB of free local bandwidth.<\/p>\n
While this pricing has not been made official yet, Cybersmart CEO Laurie Failkov said that it will be ‘the same or better’ when it is formally launched. The main reason for the new pricing is cheaper international bandwidth on SEACOM, and Failkov said that the new prices will only be officially launched a month after their SEACOM capacity goes live.<\/p>\n