R29 per GB ADSL offering launched

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Afrihost set to shake up ADSL market with R 29.00 per GB ADSL service

Local hosting company Afrihost has released the proverbial cat among the pigeons with its R 29.00 per GB ADSL offering. The company today announced that it has cut the price of its ADSL data bundles from R 57 per GB to R 29 per GB.

Afrihost’s 1 GB data bundle now costs R 29.00 per month while the company’s 2 GB, 3 GB and 5 GB ADSL data bundle pricing has been reduced to R 58, R 87 and R 145 respectively. Data top-ups have fallen to R29 per GB and their prepaid data lowered to R49 per GB.

The ADSL bandwidth is provisioned over the Internet Solutions backbone and all accounts come standard with email accounts and webmail access. The accounts are month-to-month contracts with no long term lock-ins.

“With our new offer we wanted to make as BIG a splash as possible and give the most value to our clients - so after much debating and calculating we decided to go as low as we can go,” explains Afrihost CEO Gian Visser.

Afrihost made it clear that it is a limited offer aimed at early adopters. “Remember we can't guarantee that we will offer this R29.00 deal forever - but what we can guarantee you is that if you are quick enough and signup in time then your price of R29 per GB will be locked in for whatever package you bought,” Visser said.

Existing Afrihost ADSL clients may be happy to hear that their subscription price has also been changed to R 29.00 per GB.
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This is pretty insane, gonna sign up as soon as I get home
 
I signed up. :D Saw this at the MyBB forums a bit earlier. The great thing is that it's not a contract so you can try them out and see OF. :)
 
Solitude said:
I signed up. :D Saw this at the MyBB forums a bit earlier. The great thing is that it's not a contract so you can try them out and see OF. :)
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Im going to do this. Since im still living with my parents im going to tell my dad to try it out for a month.
 
Solitude said:
I signed up. :D Saw this at the MyBB forums a bit earlier. The great thing is that it's not a contract so you can try them out and see OF. :)
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Has anyone read through their terms and conditions. I see the payment options are monthly by credit card or debit order. Is this recurring or does one have to manually log in and order?
 
Jase said:
Has anyone read through their terms and conditions. I see the payment options are monthly by credit card or debit order. Is this recurring or does one have to manually log in and order?
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I chose the debit order option. They'll take care of everything until I decide to cancel. :)
 
Any notice period? Sorry to ask so many questions, I am just stuggling to load their pages on this sat link (actually it's two idiots upstairs who are d/loading a ton of stuff off of the itunes store ...)
 
The offer says it's limited... Hopefully it won't disappear too soon :(

I'm definitely going to take advantage of it while it lasts though.
 
Jase said:
Any notice period? Sorry to ask so many questions, I am just stuggling to load their pages on this sat link (actually it's two idiots upstairs who are d/loading a ton of stuff off of the itunes store ...)
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Yeah it looks like there's a 30 day notice period should you wish to cancel.
 
I'm sceptical. It doesn't help if it's that cheap, but the speed is horrible. I know. we have uncapped. But we only ever get a max of 40kb/s were supposed be getting 10 times that.
 
Did your service provider guarantee that speed?

I am trying to find the Terms and Conditions for this offer.
 
Speed horrible? I'm getting the same speeds as my Saix connection. Speedtest results at MyBB will tell you the same.

To me it all works out great. They used their advertising budget to lower the price and Afrihost is well known, at least for everyone who has hosted websites before and looked at South African prices.

It uses the IS backbone, possibly with Seacom I believe. So speeds are good. Price is good and there are no catches. It requires that you send them a copy of your ID if you use the debit order but that's normal since either Mweb or Webafrica has asked me the same before.
 
I can't find the T&C for this R29 offer. :o

If one of you know where to find it, I would appreciate it if you would point me in its direction.
 
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