ok, so I'm married to a south-african girl, I'm from Romania...We've been living here for a while and we were thinking of spending a few months in ZA, so I thought to look for some internet pricing, as we both use the internet regularly.
Now let me tell you how things are here in Romania: I pay about 30RON, which is equivalent to 90ZAR for my internet connection (monthly). For that, i get unlimited internet, no upload/download cap and the speeds are good (2-8 Mbps on outside lines, when I download stuff from torrent sites, where most peers are in N.America/EU/Asia and 5-20 Mbps for local traffic, within Romania)
Obviously , I had a hunch that things might be a bit more expensive, seeing that South-Africa is at the tip of Africa...but then again, in many aspects SA is more developed than Romania.
When I looked for prices, I was simply amazed at those rip-off figures...Over 1200 ZAR/monthly for a connection weaker than what I've got now AND, most importantly, 12GB monthly cap.....I normally exceed that figure in ONE day.
What is wrong in South-Africa ? Who makes these rip-off prices ?? I've lived in USA and UK as well and I've found the internet to be a bit more than Romania, but not nearly as much as in South-Africa. It is an OUTRAGE !!
How do you people that live there manage ? what do you use ? maybe you've got some knowledge of companies with a more reasonable service. I'm interested in UNLIMITED traffic...is there no company that offers , to say at least 2-4 Mbps speeds, but NO monthly cap ??
Hey, MARS, thanks for the answer..
It used to be pretty high in Romania as well, maybe 4-5 years ago, 10$/month for speeds like 64/128 Kbps. But even then there weren't limited by monthly GB caps...I used to still download things, although on a much smaler scale , obviously
Nowadays, I expect to get DVD quality movies and other things in a matter of minutes..
Oh well, I have to get used to no internet while staying over in SA...or maybe just the usual emailing/blogging, etc. Definitely not much downloading going on
Now let me tell you how things are here in Romania: I pay about 30RON, which is equivalent to 90ZAR for my internet connection (monthly). For that, i get unlimited internet, no upload/download cap and the speeds are good (2-8 Mbps on outside lines, when I download stuff from torrent sites, where most peers are in N.America/EU/Asia and 5-20 Mbps for local traffic, within Romania)
Obviously , I had a hunch that things might be a bit more expensive, seeing that South-Africa is at the tip of Africa...but then again, in many aspects SA is more developed than Romania.
When I looked for prices, I was simply amazed at those rip-off figures...Over 1200 ZAR/monthly for a connection weaker than what I've got now AND, most importantly, 12GB monthly cap.....I normally exceed that figure in ONE day.
What is wrong in South-Africa ? Who makes these rip-off prices ?? I've lived in USA and UK as well and I've found the internet to be a bit more than Romania, but not nearly as much as in South-Africa. It is an OUTRAGE !!
How do you people that live there manage ? what do you use ? maybe you've got some knowledge of companies with a more reasonable service. I'm interested in UNLIMITED traffic...is there no company that offers , to say at least 2-4 Mbps speeds, but NO monthly cap ??
Hey, MARS, thanks for the answer..
It used to be pretty high in Romania as well, maybe 4-5 years ago, 10$/month for speeds like 64/128 Kbps. But even then there weren't limited by monthly GB caps...I used to still download things, although on a much smaler scale , obviously
Nowadays, I expect to get DVD quality movies and other things in a matter of minutes..
Oh well, I have to get used to no internet while staying over in SA...or maybe just the usual emailing/blogging, etc. Definitely not much downloading going on