Mobile Broadband: Vodacom announces more rate cuts

Vodacom is heating up the Mobile Broadband market quite nicely, especially if one considers the ample rate cuts Vodacom has announced in terms of the Broadband Advanced packages they plan to ‘re-introduce’ later this month.

Broadband Advanced rate cuts of up to 36%…

Vodacom has recently announced that they are not only planning to ‘re-introduce’ their Broadband Advanced packages (500MB, 1GB and 2GB) later this month, but also at rates that are up to 36% lower than before.

In fact, the Broadband Advanced rate cuts planned by Vodacom will under cut MTN’s Mobile Broadband rates (assuming that MTN’s rates stay the same until month end), and although not significantly, it should force MTN to consider cutting their Mobile Broadband rates as well. This is despite the fact that MTN still offers better value for money when one considers MTN’s overall value proposition...

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Dark Fibre Africa

The ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) Team travel to Sandton almost every day to compete in the 8 to 5 rat race like most of The Average Joes in South Africa. Those of you who share this road with us would have noticed the thin line snaking down Sandton Drive (and other roads as well). Yes, the same line that slowed down traffic recently to the frustration of many.

Great was the relief when we discovered that it’s all for a good cause...

Dark Fibre Africa is not the end of Africa or anything of that sort but the name of a company that’s helping to bring light to Africa. Dark Fibre Africa is busy rolling out fibre optic cables that are needed to bring down the cost of broadband in South Africa.

A different approach…

Unlike other companies who lay cables mostly in pavements, Dark Fibre Africa, lay cables directly in our roads. They do this by cutting through the tarmac, laying the cable and then tar it all up again.

Even more interesting…

Dark Fibre Africa is not a telecoms provider but an infrastructure provider.

Their plan is simple: If you do not have a licence to provide telecoms services, piggy back on those who do have licences and lay down as many cables as possible and sell it to them.

They have so far managed to get Vodacom and another anonymous telecoms service provider onboard.

The ADSL South Africa Team