G-connect and the chronicles of the Broadband price war

The launch of the much anticipated Seacom cable into South Africa has for a long time been a hot topic. Some folks thought there would be a price war and others said it would take months to see any price reductions.

Well the good news fringsters is that the price wars have started and this the day before the official launch of the Seacom Cable. The very first contender in the ring, the boys and girls of G-Connect, who today announced that they would reduce their ADSL rate by 25% in anticipation of the Seacom cable launch which is scheduled for Thursday 23 July 2009.

The G-connect “price drop sees prepaid ADSL access rates decrease from 6.5c per MB to 4.9c per MB and during its happy-hour (between 5pm and 8pm daily) decrease to 4.5c per Mb from 4.7c per MB.”

Further good news for fringsters is that if you provision your 3G simcard with G-connect you can surf in 3G from your mobile device at rates far below the standard out of bundle network rate of R2 per MB. The G-connect standard 3G rate is 62c per MB and during their happy hour (5-8pm) it drops to 55c per MB. G-connect is a relatively new player in the market and these new rates are not bad for the new kid on the block if I may say so.

The G-connect team seems to be on the ball at the moment, they recently called me up and offered to send me a preconfigured simcard to trial the service and you can be sure I will let you guys know how the service performs.

Let the price war begin