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A fiber price war has started in South Africa after Openserve announced major changes in your wholesale offering.
Openserve is South Africa’s largest fixed broadband provider, covering more than 2.4 million homes with fiber, either direct to home (FTTH) or to the cabinet (FTTC).
The network provider also has plans to provide fiber to the home to its entire FTTC footprint, which is great news for current DSL subscribers.
As part of its fiber push, Openserve today implemented speed upgrades and price cuts on its Fiber Connect and Copper Connect products.
The most significant change is the phasing out of the 10 Mbps and 20 Mbps services, which were upgraded to speeds of 25 Mbps and 50 Mbps for free.
“As part of the speed upgrade, there will be no additional costs from Openserve that directly affect ISP partners,” Openserve said.
Openserve added that it is offering incentives to its ISP partners to allow them to easily upgrade their customers.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including Afrihost, Cool Ideas, Axxess, Supersonic, and Mweb, responded quickly to Openserve’s total changes.
February 9 Afrihost informed their fiber customers using Openserve infrastructure that will receive free line speed upgrades in March.
Axxess followed suit on February 17, saying that almost all of its Openserve Fiber customers will get a free speed upgrade for their lines.
These speed updates will result in customer speeds being doubled at no additional cost, and the updates will be permanent.
Last week, Mweb released its new Openserve fiber products, which include symmetric service of 25 Mbps per R499 per month.
Openserve fiber prices in South Africa
MyBroadband compared the recently released Openserve ISP products from prominent ISPs in the table below.
It should be noted that some popular service providers, such as Vox, are not included as their new Openserve pricing has yet to be announced.
| Openserve fiber prices in South Africa | |||
| ISP | Download speed | Upload speed | Price |
| Mweb | 25 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R499 |
| Afrihost | 25 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R597 |
| Cool ideas | 25 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R599 |
| Axxess | 25 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R645 |
| Supersonic | 25 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R699 |
| Mweb | 50 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R739 |
| Afrihost | 50 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R797 |
| Axxess | 50 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R805 |
| Cool ideas | 50 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R819 |
| Supersonic | 50 Mbps | 25 Mbps | R849 |
| Mweb | 100 Mbps | 50 Mbps | R899 |
| Afrihost | 100 Mbps | 50 Mbps | R917 |
| Axxess | 100 Mbps | 50 Mbps | R935 |
| Cool ideas | 100 Mbps | 50 Mbps | R999 |
| Supersonic | 100 Mbps | 50 Mbps | 1,049 R |
| Mweb | 200 Mbps | 100 Mbps | 1,049 R |
| Afrihost | 200 Mbps | 100 Mbps | R1,117 |
| Axxess | 200 Mbps | 100 Mbps | R1,135 |
| Supersonic | 200 Mbps | 100 Mbps | R1,195 |
| Cool ideas | 200 Mbps | 100 Mbps | R1,199 |
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