MTN Fibre launched with aggressive prices
October 16th 2023
MTN South Africa has launched MTN Fibre, offering aggressively priced uncapped fibre broadband prices, including a 1Gbit/s plan for R889/month on Vumatel’s network. Provided through its internet service provider Supersonic, MTN Fibre “pairs high-speed internet with unmatched reliability from as little as R349/month, including router and installation”, the company said in a statement on Monday. MTN Fibre offers speeds of up to 1Gbit/s (downlink; the uplink speed goes up to 500Mbit/s). Though the company hasn’t supplied pricing for all of the fibre offerings, TechCentral has determined that these are the prices it charges for access on the country’s largest home fibre network operator, Vumatel (all plans include free-to-use router and month-to-month subscription, and prices include VAT):
- 25Mbit/s symmetrical: R419/month
- 50Mbit/s symmetrical: R489/month
- 100Mbit/s symmetrical: R589/month
- 200Mbit/s symmetrical: R689/month
- 500Mbit/s downlink with 200Mbit/s uplink: R789/month
- 1Gbit/s downlink with 250Mbit/s uplink: R889/month
- 1Gbit/s downlink with 500Mbit/s uplink: R1 889/month