Afrihost “Bundles Up” for winter with Affordable Broadband
Wednesday, 06 June, 2012 at 11:00 - Announcements
We are now offering the most affordable ADSL bundles in South Africa!
A well known company’s CEO recently said “price is not a strategy in itself. It’s a killer for everyone” - Implying that pushing prices down hurts the market, and ultimately the consumer. We reject this notion, and proved this in the past by introducing R29 per GB pricing - which eventually made broadband more affordable and accessible to the average South African.
We recognize that the barrier facing many consumers is not so much the cost of bandwidth itself, but the total cost of a broadband solution. By introducing the most affordable ADSL bundles South Africa has ever seen, we are launching an aggressive attack against the high cost of fixed bandwidth installations.
How are these amazing prices possible? Simple - we have allocated a chunk of our marketing budget to subsidise the bundles. As always, we will ensure that existing clients are looked after first and foremost. Any existing client with an ADSL line and Uncapped product can combine their current products and take up a bundle solution.
Most notably, our 10Mbps bundle solution comes in at a jaw-dropping R897pm – which is even less than we (or anyone else) is currently charging for a standalone 10Mbps Uncapped ADSL Data package.
We will monitor sign-ups and the continued viability of the pricing, and may at some point in the future adjust pricing for new signups. However any client, new or existing, who moves to the new Bundles will retain the pricing they signed up for initially.
| Package |
Regular Price (Data + Line Rental) |
Bundled Price | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 384kbps | R177 + R149 = R326pm | R297pm | R29pm (8.9%) |
| 1Mbps | R197 + R279 = R476pm | R397pm | R79pm (16.6%) |
| 4Mbps | R397 + R399 = R796pm | R697pm | R99pm (12.4%) |
| 10Mbps | R997 + R399 = R1396pm | R897pm | R499pm (35.7%) |
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Comments
06 Jun 2012
CattleSpeed said
I am very grateful for being bumped up from 10Gb to 15Gb of cap. Hopefully capped users will stand to benefit from bundled products soon.
12 Jun 2012
Kevin said
This is the exact set of packages that has now tipped me over the edge to move from my current ISP of 5 years to Afrihost!!
06 Jun 2012
FS said
Well done Afrihost. To improve this, bundles such as these for capped lines would also be a great improvement.