Fastest uncapped Internet for people without fibre in South Africa
While FTTH coverage has increased substantially over the last decade, many parts of the country will never receive fibre.
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While FTTH coverage has increased substantially over the last decade, many parts of the country will never receive fibre.
South Africa’s biggest fibre network operators has declined to reveal how much it charges ISPs to downgrade customers to cheaper, slower services.
In many of the country’s townships and informal settlements, cellular connectivity has long been the only way to access the Internet. That is quickly changing.
The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) has raised concerns over Openserve’s move to launch an Internet service provider.
Fibertime chief executive officer Danvig de Bruyn announced the new payment method in a post on LinkedIn this week.
Openserve’s new 1Gbps FTTH service is cheaper than Vumatel’s equivalent, but Vuma does offer a cheaper gigabit service too.
Telkom’s Openserve has started selling fibre-to-the-home packages directly to users, with prices starting at R325 per month.
The most affordable FTTH plans in South Africa start at R99 per month, but more generally available packages are typically priced around R500, a MyBroadband analysis found.
In recent years, FTTH users in South Africa have frequently been hit with price increases. One major ISP has managed to protect many of its customers from most of the impact.
Fibertime is rolling out FTTH connectivity in townships at a rate of knots.