WebAfrica last year announced that they are moving over to a tier-1 network that would enable them to provide cheaper prices and have more control over their network with regards to new types of products.

WebAfrica has since switched over to their own tier-1 network at the end of last year and promised new pricing that would compete with the now competitive local ADSL market. WebAfrica has released their new ADSL pricing and left many disappointed with prices almost double that of current ISPs like Afrihost with their R29 per GB ADSL accounts.

Although WebAfrica does provide new services with their ADSL accounts like unlimited free gaming bandwidth for playing on their new Wage gaming network and a soon to be launched steam content server that also allows for unlimited free bandwidth to download content from the steam server, it still does not justify the high prices they still charge for ADSL bandwidth.

Some users called the new WebAfrica pricing a joke and extremely disappointed while others said that they were glad they switched over to Afrihost back when they launched their R29 per GB pricing.

I personally don’t see users making use of the current Afrihost or G-Connect ADSL accounts switching over to WebAfrica any time soon. Bellow is a table of the new pricing from WebAfrica.

Late last year Afrihost took the ADSL market by surprise by introducing the lowest per GB rate available in South Africa.

Afrihost introduced its R29 per Gigabyte offer and everybody jumped ship almost instantly including me and since then I haven’t had a problem, until my Credit Card expired leaving my details invalid at Afrihost. I did the right thing and paid my account via EFT and faxed proof of payment through but unfortunately they still suspended my account.

I didn’t notice it immediately as I was on another account due to being capped the previous month, but around the 4th after switching back to my Afrihost account I found out that my account was suspended. I phoned the Afrihost support line and after about 20 mins of holding on I was eventually put through to someone that could help me and update my Credit Card details.

The waiting period had me very upset and I expressed my dissatisfaction on twitter where Afrihost CEO, Gian Visser, picked it up and contacted me. Today I was contacted by Gian Visser and was pleased to find out that they credited my account with a few extra Gigs for the inconvenience caused.

Over all I can not complain about Afrihost, their ADSL offering is superb. I never have a problem with line speed or latency, in fact I get better speeds and latency than on my normal SAIX accounts. As for the long waiting for support, I guess they were just very busy at the time as previous calls to their support line got me through almost instantly.

Afrihost is still running their R29 per GB ADSL offering but it could end at any moment, so I would suggest that if you are not already making use of this cheap ADSL offering get to it. If you sign up for the Afrihost offer now your price of R29 per GB will be locked in forever, oh and have I mentioned that Afrihost has a two for one top-up offer regularly where you can top-up your account with 2 GB worth of data for the price of only 1 GB.

Thank you Afrihost for the extra gigs, I will put it to good use.

By now every body have heard of, or signed up to the limited R29 per GB ADSL offer from Afrihost.

This offer by Afrihost, known for its hosting, has set the wheel rolling to drive broadband prices down in South Africa. Although Afrihost is only offering it as a limited promotion, if you sign up during the promotion you will always be charged R29 per GB for as long as you are a customer.

Now Afrihost has again disrupted the local internet market by slashing their price by another 50% if you top up. If you are a Afrihost customer you can now top up at R14.50 per GB. This is the cheapest per GB price for international bandwidth South Africa has ever seen, it even comes close to what other ISP charge for 1 GB local only bandwidth.

If you haven’t by now signed up to the cheapest ADSL in South Africa, what are you waiting for? Sign up here for cheap international ADSL bandwidth, or if you are looking to host a website why not visit Afrhost site to sign up for one of their great hosting packages.

PS. I dropped my long time ISP WebAfrica and switched over to Afrihost about 2 month ago and haven’t looked back since, saving me a total of 50% on my 5GB cap at home.

In a country like South Africa where broadband prices is sky high one player in the ISP market stirred up things recently with their R29 per GB offering.

Afrihost mostly known for their hosting has caused a great stir in the local ADSL market by dropping the price of ADSL bandwidth to an all time low of only R29 per GB. Users are not hesitating laeaving their current ISP to get their hands on this great offer by Afrihost.

I personally cancelled my 5GB account from WebAfrica and purchased one from Afrihost for a mere R149, where WebAfrica was charging me R290 for the same amount of bandwidth. The nice thing about the special from Afrihost is that once you signed up for the R29 per GB price your price will remain the same as long as you are part of Afrihost.

Bandwidth for these accounts are provided via the Internet Solutions network that makes use of the SAT3 undersea fibre cable.

If you are frustrated with the high broadband prices in South Africa, and ISP’s ripping off the consumers please go and support Afrihost and sign up for their R29 per GB ADSL accounts. This is by far the most cheapest broadband price currently in South Africa.

We here at iGeek believe in driving broadband prices down in South Africa, and thats exacly what the guys at G-Connect is doing at the moment.

A while back I wrote  a article on G-Connect’s great pricing. G-Connect currently offers the lowest price for carry over ADSL data in South Africa at only 4.9c per Megabyte, and the best part is you can use your one account for wifi, 3G and ADSL.

The guys at G-Connect have been very kind and donated two R50 G-Connect vouchers for me to give away. To enter simply reply to this post or retweet the following on twitter “@diekloon @G_Connect Win a G-Connect Voucher with iGeek and G-Connect http://bit.ly/N01RH”

For more information regarding G-Connect’s great offerings visit their website.

WebAfrica will be testing their very own Tier-1 ADSL network within the next 30 days and they need you to help them test it.

WebAfrica is giving away 10GB adsl account to users willing to help test their brand new Tier-1 ADSL network. The accounts are absolutely free, but are limited to the first 5000 signups.

To sign up fo this free trial please visit http://www.webafrica.co.za/trial/. Login details will then be sent to you via email or sms as soon as the trial begins. Users can keep up to date on discussions surrounding the trail and receive customer support on the WebAfrica Trial Forum, available at http://forums.webafrica.co.za/networktrial.

For more information regarding the Trial visit the WebAfrica Blog. Please not that there is only 5000 signups available and already 1,843 has signed up, so hurry to get your free 10GB trial account.

I signed up for my account on Friday already and will be giving feedback throughout the trial right here on iGeek.

G-Connect is the latest company with its mind set on driving broadband prices to the ground in South Africa. G-Connect enterend the market a few months back first with their wireless offerings, and recently introduced G-Connect ADSL at the cheapest rate for unshaped prepaid ADSL in South Africa.

Sure there are other cheap offers on the market now, like FNB Connect and Edgars Club Connect, the thing with those packages are that there is catches. FNB Connect asks a R69 activation while the Edgars offer is only R29 it only applies to the first gig there after prices is sky high.

G-Connect ADSL connectivity is available at only 4.5c per MB during Happy Hour and 4.9c per MB during normal hours, that equates to R50.17 for 1GB worth of data that is unshaped and has carry-over. Some other great news is that G-Connect will soon launch prepaid vouchers obtainable from various outlets, something similiar like Axxess is doing.

What are the benefits of G-Connect ADSL?

• It’s fast.
• It’s cheap.
• It’s awesome.
• One account.
• Prepaid.
• Free Connection Manager Software.
• Data rollover.
• 24/7 Customer Support.
• No Sign Up and Activation Fee.
• Unshaped

For more information on G-Connect’s great offering visit their website here.