The Constantia Fibre Initiative announced on 21 April 2015 that fibre-to-the-home will be rolled out to all 3,500 households in the area this year. The first household will be live by 29 June, and the first 100 houses connected by 31 July.

The Constantia network will use Gigabit Passive Optical Network technology, offering maximum download speeds of 1 Gigabit per second and upload speeds of up to 500 Megabits per second.

Constantia is the latest in a long list of areas in Gauteng, Cape Town, and Durban to get FTTH services.

These fibre broadband services compete directly against Telkom’s fixed-line products – ADSL, VDSL, and fibre.

This raises the question: How does the new crop of FTTH pricing compare against Telkom’s DSL and fibre rates?

The table below answers that question.

Telkom DSL/FTTH versus Other FTTH ISP Service Speed Data allowance Monthly price Telkom ADSL 10Mbps 50GB R584 ISP Afrika FTTH Constantia 10Mbps 50GB R599 Greencom Metrofibre Networx 10Mbps 50GB R683 123Net FTTH Constantia 10Mbps Unlimited R599 Greencom Metrofibre Networx 10Mbps Unlimited R683 Telkom ADSL 10Mbps Unlimited R999 Telkom VDSL 20Mbps 50GB R601 Vodacom FTTH 20Mbps 50GB R799 Smart Village FTTH 20Mbps 50GB R929 Telkom FTTH 20Mbps 50GB R999 123Net FTTH Constantia 20Mbps Unlimited R849 Cybersmart FTTH Vumatel 20Mbps Unlimited R899 Telkom VDSL 20Mbps Unlimited R1,589 Telkom VDSL 40Mbps 100GB R839 MWEB FTTH Vumatel 50Mbps 100GB R899 Web Afrika FTTH Vumatel 50Mbps 100GB R899 Vodacom FTTH 40Mbps 100GB R1,199 Telkom FTTH 40Mbps 100GB R1,299 Smart Village FTTH 40Mbps 100GB R1,404 123Net FTTH Constantia 50Mbps Unlimited R1,399 Cybersmart FTTH Vumatel 50Mbps Unlimited R1,499 Cool Ideas FTTH Vumatel 50Mbps Unlimited R1,499 Greencom Metrofibre Networx 50Mbps Unlimited R1,709 Telkom VDSL 40Mbps Unlimited R2,398 ISP Afrika FTTH Constantia 100Mbps 200GB R999 Telkom FTTH 100Mbps 200GB R1,799 Vodacom FTTH 100Mbps 200GB R1,799 123Net FTTH Constantia 100Mbps Unlimited R2,299 Greencom Metrofibre Networx 100Mbps Unlimited R2,849 Cybersmart FTTH Vumatel 100Mbps Unlimited R2,899 Cool Ideas FTTH Vumatel 100Mbps Unlimited R2,899

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