Web Africa has just launched a new Home ADSL product range that is sure to shake up the local South African ADSL market. The new product called Home Connect gives users double the bandwidth for the same prices compared to other ADSL providers.

Having analysed home user ADSL bandwidth trends, Web Africa have come up with the Home Connect product that offers users peak and off-peak usage allowances, resulting in low prices starting from R29 for 2GB of ADSL bandwidth.

I have to point out that the off-peak usage allowances is not like other broadband providers’ where you only get to use the bandwidth when you would normally be asleep, but rather when you would use the internet most as a home user, between 7pm and 7am.

Head of Product and Marketing, Cliff Hazell, says: “We have specifically designed this product for home users who are looking for good value for their money and don’t want to spend a fortune on quality ADSL. The majority of home users’ bandwidth is utilised outside of business hours or on weekends, allowing us to offer ‘off peak’ usage at much lower rates, whilst still providing sufficient bandwidth for normal peak-time usage and pass the value on to our customers.”

Web Africa Home Connect pricing

For more details visit the Web Africa Home Connect ADSL product page.

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.

Just a friendly reminder for you guys that missed the G-Connect Giveaway post. You have until end of day Friday to enter to stand a chance to win one of 2 G-Connect vouchers to the value of R50 each.

Each voucher can be used to buy 1GB worth of Internation ADSL bandwidth, this is a great way to test out G-Connect’s great offerings if you always wanted to. G-Connect not only offers ADSL connectivity but the voucher can also be used to access 3G aswell as G-Connect WiFi hotspots with your phone.

To enter simply follow the instructions on the G-Connect Giveaway post, good luck to all.

ZATorrents opened it doors today to the public. ZATorrents is a new initiative by owner of ZA-Portal, the free local proxy service that allows you to browse and download content with local only cap.

ZATorrents is having a new signup competition, and I decided to help out a bit. The ZATorrent competition is a refer contest , the top 3 members to refer the most users get a prize as listed below.  To refer someone is quite easy , during signup you just put your name into the refer box and that is it.

Prizes:
1st Place: 5GB International – Unshaped
2nd Place: 5GB International – Shaped
3rd Place: 3GB International – Shaped

All account SAIX Based.

The contest will end on 28th August 2009! and the winners will get their prize exactly at 7:00PM.

So this is what I propose, go sign up to ZATorrent and use referer name igeek. Then if igeek gets one of the prizes, I’ll have a small competition for you guys to win the prize.

UPDATE

If there is no referer box simply pm the user ZAPortal with the words Referer: igeek

The long awaited SEACOM cable will be flipping the on switch today.

After a setback about a month ago SEACOM had to postpone the launch of their 1.28Tbps undersea cable stretching from London to Cape Town by 28 days.

From today retail carriers will be able to utilise the $600-million, 15 000 km undersea fibre-optic cable system with equal and open access to affordable bandwidth

To celebrate the launch of SEACOM, Neotel and CISCO have invited stakeholders and the media to a live demonstration of the fibre optic cable.  Delegates will also be given the opportunity to test drive the SEACOM cable through provided Internet connections.

“SEACOM is turning on the switch for you to enjoy true broadband!” the companies said in a joint statement.

Seacom the new undersea cable operator bringing more bandwidth to Africa has officialy launched their blog today. Users can visit the blog for up to date news about the Seacom cable.

The site is not only a blog but contains galleries about the contruction of the cable and the landing stations. There is also a forum available where any user can discuss anything from bandwidth usage to investment opertunities. The site also boasts a application to help get your ISP on the bandwagon for cheaper international bandwidth, you simply fill out the questions and Seacom will contact your ISP regarding access on the cable.

Users can also follow seacom via twitter @SeacomLive Check out the Seacom Blog Here