By my calculations (which assume I won’t exhaust the 60GB in the ten-odd months remaining on my lease) I’ll save over R3 200 by July 2013. In a worst-case, assuming use of 10GB per month, after depleting the 8.ta offer over six months you’ll still save nearly R2 000.
Mweb vs telkom adsl free#
Even accounting for the fact that I get 3GB of free “ADSL Rewards” data from FNB Connect per month, I’ll still be saving. Especially for a user like me who uses somewhere between 3GB and 5GB per month. The numbers on mobile broadband make so much more sense. It also means multiple users and multiple devices can use that same connection. This means you can still enjoy Wi-Fi coverage through your home without the hassle of needing to plug in and connect on a 3G dongle every time you want to go online. Quickly changing some settings on the router means you can use 3G as the primary connection. Many new ADSL modems (including the free ones you get from Telkom when installing ADSL) have a USB port for a 3G modem to use as “failover”. The one thing ADSL has going for it, the convenience of a fairly reliable Wi-Fi connection in your house, is easy to replicate. There’s a catch (there always is), in that you have to use 8.ta’s network and can’t roam on MTN ( JSE:MTN), so you have to double-check (and triple-check!) your coverage. It’s comfortably the best offer in the market at the moment, more so because you aren’t rationed with 5GB per month over the year. There’s an additional 60GB of “night surfer” data for use between 11pm and 5am (which is a huge bonus). For a one-off payment of R1 800, you get 60GB of anytime mobile data to use over 12 months. I’m switching to 8.ta’s “ 60GIG + 60GIG” promo this week. Cell C, Neotel and ironically enough Telkom’s mobile operator 8.ta, all offer far cheaper ways to have decent internet access at home. Thing is, there’s just much better value in the market. Upgrade to a 4Mbps ADSL service, and you’re spending somewhere between R1 000 and R1 100 per month! Once the upgrades happen, your 2Mbps uncapped service will cost over R800, due to that higher monthly charge from your ISP. And with speed of only 1Mbps, you’ll hardly be enjoying your browsing experience. In total, a fairly basic 1Mbps service sets you back around R650 a month. Then add uncapped data at R199 per month (never mind that certain service providers are already charging customers the new 2Mbps price of R369 before Telkom upgrades line speeds).Īnd there’s compulsory landline rental from Telkom (at R148.37 per month) which makes the comparison with alternatives even less flattering. There is some confusion in the marketplace at the moment, given that Telkom is busy upgrading its line speeds: the (up to) 384Kbps service will become (up to) 1Mbps and the (up to) 1Mbps service will become (up to) 2Mbps. The top 4Mbps/10Mbps is R425 (its not worth including the 384kbps service in this comparison because its pitifully slow). Telkom’s ( JSE:TKG) line rental charge is R299 per month. Let’s take the kind-of-fast-enough-and-passes-for-broadband 1Mbps ADSL service (which I have at home). Unless you’re a household with serious bandwidth needs, ADSL just doesn’t make financial sense.
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