{"id":108643,"date":"2016-10-18T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108643"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:36:43","slug":"south-african-uncapped-fibre-lines-are-now-much-cheaper-than-uncapped-adsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/108643-south-african-uncapped-fibre-lines-are-now-much-cheaper-than-uncapped-adsl","title":{"rendered":"South African uncapped Fibre lines are now much cheaper than Uncapped ADSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Internet service providers have launched new uncapped fibre-to-the-home products, with prices continuing to drop.<\/p>\n

Afrihost was one of the ISPs which recently launched new uncapped FTTH products<\/strong><\/a>, offering services over Openserve, Vumatel, and TT Connect\u2019s fibre networks.<\/p>\n

What is interesting is that Afrihost\u2019s new uncapped FTTH products offer better value for money than ADSL.<\/p>\n

The main reason for this\u00a0is the absence of an analogue line charge, which is compulsory with\u00a0all ADSL services.<\/p>\n

While this is bad news for ADSL and VDSL subscribers, it is good news for fibre operators.<\/p>\n

Uncapped ADSL vs Uncapped FTTH<\/h3>\n

The table below provides an overview of how Afrihost\u2019s uncapped FTTH prices compare with its ADSL prices.<\/p>\n

The total monthly price\u00a0of these services are listed below, including analogue line rental for ADSL.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Afrihost Uncapped Bundles: FTTH vs DSL<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Service<\/strong><\/td>\nNetwork<\/strong><\/td>\nDownload Speed<\/strong><\/td>\nUpload Speed<\/strong><\/td>\nTotal Monthly Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FTTH<\/td>\nVumatel<\/td>\n4Mbps<\/td>\n1Mbps<\/td>\nR499<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ADSL<\/td>\nOpenserve<\/td>\n4Mbps<\/td>\n0.5Mbps<\/td>\nR588<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FTTH<\/td>\nTT Connect<\/td>\n10Mbps<\/td>\n10Mbps<\/td>\nR599<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ADSL<\/td>\nOpenserve<\/td>\n10Mbps<\/td>\n1Mbps<\/td>\nR848<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FTTH<\/td>\nVumatel<\/td>\n20Mbps<\/td>\n2Mbps<\/td>\nR779<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VDSL<\/td>\nOpenserve<\/td>\n20Mbps<\/td>\n2Mbps<\/td>\nR968<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VDSL<\/td>\nOpenserve<\/td>\n40Mbps<\/td>\n3Mbps<\/td>\nR1,438<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FTTH<\/td>\nOpenserve<\/td>\n40Mbps<\/td>\n20Mbps<\/td>\nR1,499<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0How to check your suburb’s maximum line speed and if you can get it<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the uncapped options South Africans should be looking at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":108645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,22907,2378,6524,2163,22909],"class_list":["post-108643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-adsl-fibre","tag-internet","tag-price","tag-south-africa","tag-spped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108649,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108643\/revisions\/108649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}