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Openserve destroyed in South Africa’s 2023 fibre price war

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Following a raft of fibre speed and price changes announced in the past few weeks, one network appears to be lagging behind its rivals in nearly every line speed category.

Recent changes in South African fibre network operator speeds and pricing have made Openserve the most expensive home fibre provider for nearly all line speed categories.Openserve’s speed upgrades and price cuts in 2021and set the tone for a sequence of fibre-to-the-home package overhauls from its rivals in the following months.

MetroFibre recently radically reduced prices on its 500Mbps and 1Gbps packages and scrapped the 200Mbps package, replacing it with a 400Mbps one at no extra charge. Frogfoot and Octotel also increased speeds on most of their FTTH products. Although this triggered some price increases, there were also improvements in the price-per-megabit of packages.Price per Mbps comparison

Each FNO offers a different combination of package speeds, and some have opted for some rather peculiar configurations rather than the conventional 50Mbps, 100Mbps, 200Mbps, and 500Mbps options.

 

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