#MWEB AND TELKOM FREE#
If you keep your line rental with Telkom, you’re free to move as you please between ISPs, allowing you to pick and choose from their offerings and even merely follow the lowest prices, of that’s what floats your boat. The digital landscape in SA is pretty free and that means ISPs have to work that much harder to part you with your money on a regular basis. In fact, upon hearing the announcement many MWEB subscribers put in notice, or threatened to, to move to Telkom for their data needs. Telkom also buys capacity from all the major international undersea cables that land in SA, so there’s a lot of redundancy in place, just like MWEB. As a Do Broadband user myself, I’ve never experienced any hiccup since my line went up last year in March and international connectivity, especially for some online gaming, works like I expect it to. This pretty much puts the SAIX network on par with other ISPs in both pricing and speed restrictions, with the exception of those ISPs who still use the rolling window method (still sticking to your guns, Web Africa?). The important thing to note is that these price drops follow a previous announcement by Telkom that from the 1st February, all uncapped speed restrictions during the daytime would be lifted, with only prioritisation and some shaping going on to make sure things stay in line (Telkom does throttle accounts, but only during times when the network is congested, or international connectivity is hampered). A quick look at the lineup: As seen compiled in a table by Mybroadband (bit.ly/WPLsiQ). The rest of the lineup saw some impressive drops, but nothing as good as what 10Mb/s users can now enjoy. The biggest drop was seen in the 10Mb/s offerings, where both the data-only and bundle pricing took a knock, chopping off over R700 for the new bundled product. Going back to the morning of the 24th, Telkom’s announcements caused quite a stir because they almost became the cheapest ISP in the market (currently Afrihost holds that prize).
However, many uncapped subscribers with other ISPs turned their attention to Telkom when the government-owned service provider announced soft caps on all capped accounts – they knew, probably, that changes to Telkom’s uncapped offerings were on the cards. Both companies together attract a substantial amount of customers on the ADSL market and MWEB has traditionally always been in the front with price cuts. While I was initially going to report on it that same day, I decided to wait and see how MWEB would react. For those of you who don’t know, last week Telkom dropped a bomb on all the other competing ISPs by dropping their prices for their Do Broadband accounts, both separately and in bundled format.
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