This morning while listening to the radio I noticed an advertisement saying you can get 12GB of free Internet.

The Free ADSL offer is a promotion by @lantic giving customers 12GB of free ADSL. The 12GB of free ADSL are split up over a period of 6 months meaning you will get 2GB per month for 6 months.

What is the catch? From what I understand the main catch is that once you reach your 2GB cap in a month you will not get capped, instead @lantic will start to bill you for every megabyte you use after your first free 2GB. All the out of bundle data will be billed at 5c per MB which works out at R51.50 per GB. The offer is also only open to new clients.

If you sign up for the Free ADSL promotion also be aware that once your six months of free usage are over @lantic will automatically continue the service and you will be billed R49 p/m. You need to give at least 30 days notice to terminate the contract.

So what are you waiting for? Go grab that free ADSL while you can, just be sure you do not over use and to cancel on your 5th month.

While the rest of the world has been enjoying cheap uncapped Internet for long now, South African has been milked for every cent they have just to use a couple of gigs a month. This all has changed drastically the past week.

The past week the South African Internet market has been shaken up again and this time it is huge. It all started out as a campaign I have been following for a few weeks called “Free The Web” on Facebook and that is just what MWeb did, they set the Web free.

MWeb introduced uncapped Internet accounts the past week for as little as R219 per month for 384kbps and R539 per month for 4mbps data only options. MWeb also launched all in one packages starting from R349 per month for 384kbps to R899 for 4mbps.

The service is shaped but good news is that there is also an unshaped option available for businesses ranging from R499 to R1999, this service includes a Cisco router and 5 static IP addresses.

Just a day after MWeb announced the new standard for uncapped internet in South Africa other ISPs started following with OpenWeb partnering up with MWeb to offer their customers the same special, another entrant is @lantic/vox which beat the price of the all in one uncapped packages.

Good news is that Afrihost who previously shook up the Internet market with the introduction of their R29 per GB ADSL announced that they will also be introducing uncapped packages any day now, they have been looking into it for a while now and MWeb just beat them to it said Gian Visser CEO at Afrihost.

I like what I am seeing happening in the local Internet market, and just like Afrihost has set the standard of sub R30 per GB prices, MWeb has now set a new standard for uncapped Internet and other ISPs will just have to follow to stay ahead in the local Internet market.