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Uncapped ADSL price cuts

Over the last few weeks numerous ISPs have cut the price of their uncapped ADSL products. This is how these prices compare

MWEB cut its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL rates last week, and also introduced a new 2Mbps uncapped offering in anticipation of Telkom speed upgrades in August 2012.

This move by MWEB followed many price cuts and new services by Internet Services Providers (ISPs), including Afrihost, Web Africa, Cybersmart, and Axxess.

These price cuts come on the back of Telkom’s 30% reduction in wholesale ADSL (IPC) rates in April.

The new 2Mbps uncapped ADSL products were launched in anticipation of Telkom’s planned ADSL speed upgrades, where 384kbps subscribers will be bumped up to 1Mbps, and 1Mbps ADSL lines will be upgraded to 2Mbps.

This raises the question of how the different ISPs compare when it comes to uncapped ADSL rates. The following table tries to answer this question for the country’s major ISPs.

1Mbps uncapped ADSL accounts
ISP Price
Cybersmart R179
Web Africa R189
Axxess R196
Afrihost R197
MWEB R199
@lantic R199
Telkom R369
2Mbps uncapped ADSL accounts
Axxess R296
MWEB R369
4Mbps uncapped ADSL accounts
Cybersmart R395
Afrihost R397
Axxess R496
@lantic R499
MWEB R539
Web Africa R599
Telkom R699
10Mbps uncapped ADSL accounts
Cybersmart R975
Afrihost R997
MWEB R999
Axxess R1,096
Web Africa R1,299
Telkom R1,399