Massive 10Mbps uncapped ADSL price cut

[maximus]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/57787-massive-10mbps-uncapped-adsl-price-cut.html

Massive 10Mbps uncapped ADSL price cut
Staff Writer August 21, 2012 20 Comment

Axxess has slashed the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL rates in a surprising move

Axxess has slashed the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL product from the usual R1,096 per month to R496 per month.

In a surprise move, Axxess launched its “one price fits all” uncapped ADSL service, which has the same price (R496) for 4Mbps, 5Mbps, 6Mbps, 8Mbps and 10Mbps speeds.

Axxess’ new “one price fits all” uncapped ADSL accounts are available immediately on a month-to-month basis.

According to the Axxess website, this pricing is valid until 31 October 2012, but it may be extended “due to demand”.

This announcement comes only hours after Afrihost announced that it has cut the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL product from the previous R997 to R797 per month.

 

[abmi0000]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/adsl/57787-massive-10mbps-uncapped-adsl-price-cut.html

Massive 10Mbps uncapped ADSL price cut
Staff Writer August 21, 2012 20 Comment

Axxess has slashed the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL rates in a surprising move

Axxess has slashed the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL product from the usual R1,096 per month to R496 per month.

In a surprise move, Axxess launched its “one price fits all” uncapped ADSL service, which has the same price (R496) for 4Mbps, 5Mbps, 6Mbps, 8Mbps and 10Mbps speeds.

Axxess’ new “one price fits all” uncapped ADSL accounts are available immediately on a month-to-month basis.

According to the Axxess website, this pricing is valid until 31 October 2012, but it may be extended “due to demand”.

This announcement comes only hours after Afrihost announced that it has cut the price of its 10Mbps uncapped ADSL product from the previous R997 to R797 per month.

Cool... Does that include line rental or just bandwidth?

 

[laemmchen78]

*ggg* Adeel .....

 

[maximus]

According to their site, it's inclusive of VAT however exclusive of Telkom Line Rental.

 

[kabal]

hopefully they make it permenant, and mweb comes to the party.

afrihost/axxess day time shaping, etc is rubbish, at least on mweb torrents to max speed 24/7

 

[Bayn46]

hopefully they make it permenant, and mweb comes to the party.

afrihost/axxess day time shaping, etc is rubbish, at least on mweb torrents to max speed 24/7

The problem that I see here is quantity over quality, and I agree with you on the quality from MWEB. I get full line speed on my account which makes it feel like value for money.

Hopefully Afrihost/Axxess start offering better quality uncapped packages, now that they have started buying from MTN as well as IS.

 

[petrivanzyl]

MWEB:thumbs:

 

[abmi0000]

*ggg* Adeel .....

:mmm: :dunno:

 

[outlaw335]

:biglol:


Anyways that's brilliant news.I'm certain others will follow suit,just a matter of time..

 

[calypso]

Axxess is near unusable during the day, but luckily that's not when I need it.
I think Ill stick to the current 4mb/s line now as it allows 2 concurrent connections.

 

[Raybimmer]

oh wow ......:thumbs:
Maybe now the cell companies will follow suit........I use my 2gb up after 15 or 18 days.....dont have the luxury of fraudulently browsing the net at work and claiming full pay every month :roflol:

 

[arnoldS3]

what does the line rental from telkom cost for a 10mb line?

 

[Philip Foglar]

I think while these packages all sound great, in real terms, are they really offering the advertised performance, and consistently?! There is way too much shaping and throttling going on!

And yes, since my connection was changed over to MTN the latency and performance has been truly rubbish - people are complaining about this on MyBB! It was so much better when still with IS (as hard as that is to believe). I run Linux Ubuntu on my notebook and the cool thing is that the resource manager shows all of your network stats - so things like download and upload speeds are easy to see, and I can see how severe the shaping is lately! Instead of steady speeds it's continuously jumping up and down! And the latency is really annoying! But, I think before I let this bother me too much, remember when affordable uncapped was first launched over a year ago? That first month was a disaster and the various ISP's learnt many many lessons!

 

[AdiS]

I think while these packages all sound great, in real terms, are they really offering the advertised performance, and consistently?! There is way too much shaping and throttling going on!

This is why i believe that mweb is the only way to go for uncapped. Even then, it's not perfect.

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[XMAX]

I guess that everybody is scared of LTE which will be available by year end.

Whilst LTE is wireless they're expecting real world speeds of up to 40Mbps... with virtually Zero Latency..

 

[tcal69]

I signed up with MWEB 4mb line this month and been watching internet TV the whole month and have no problem at all:thumbs:

 

[calypso]

I signed up with MWEB 4mb line this month and been watching internet TV the whole month and have no problem at all:thumbs:

Youporn?

 

[Sankekur]

There is still two terms service providers like to use that is keeping me away from "uncapped" internet

"fair use limit"

"best effort service"

 

[fusion01]

I'd always rather stick to a capped account, paying R399 for 50GB per month. Always heard bad things about uncapped accounts. But it's alll good news and moving in the right direction

 

[kabal]

mweb's FUP is like 1 terrabyte :rollsmile:

LTE is nice and all, but at current cheapest price of like 15c a meg, compared to "uncapped" ADSL, lets call it 500gigs, at like 0.05c per meg, mobile broadband has no chance amoung high bandwidth users.

and browsing webpages at 4megs vs 40megs is virtually identical.