Uncapped ADSL for R500 per month

New ISP DigiChilli (http://www.digichilli.com/) has entered the South African market offering uncapped services utilising SEACOM bandwidth. The packages offer very competitive pricing compared with other uncapped services on the market.

The ‘Mild’ package offers an uncapped 256Kb/s connection for R500 per month. The ‘Medium’ package offers a 512Kb/s uncapped service for R1 000 per month while the ‘Hot’ package offers an unlimited 1024Kb/s service for R3 000 per month.

According to Darren Smith, Managing Director of DigiChilli, “these are all burstable services up to double the advertised speed.” The service will be officially launched on 1 December 2009, but there is currently a pre launch special available.

“Register, purchase your December account now, and receive the rest of November free and gratis, as well as a further discount of 20% off the regular monthly package price for December,” said Smith. This means a user will pay R400 now, and have the rest of November for free with no caps. The 20% discount applies to all packages.

Additionally, if a subscriber refers 5 people that sign up, that subscriber will get the following month free, which in the case of this example would be January. Accounts can be purchased on a monthly basis and all accounts use dynamic IP addresses, allowing for 2 concurrent line connections. Users are responsible for their own router and ADSL access.

Peer-to-peer (P2P) connections and torrents will be allowed, but the service is managed, with business protocols taking priority. There are no rolling thresholds.

The ‘Mild’ and ‘Medium’ packages each come with one Google powered e-mail account using the @digichilli.com domain. The ‘Hot’ package can have up to 20 e-mail accounts associated to it.

The ‘Mild’ package for R500 will be a direct competitor to companies such as Axxess (http://www.axxess.co.za/uncapped.php), who offer a 384Kb/s uncapped account with a 5GB 10 day rolling threshold for R899 per month. The benefit of the Axxess uncapped express account is that one gets their full line speed (up to 4Mb/s) during off-peak periods.

On the high end of the uncapped scale, the ‘Medium’ and ‘Hot’ DigiChilli packages will compete with the likes of business uncapped services from OpenWeb (http://www.openweb.co.za/allhours_uncapped.php), who offer an all-hours uncapped ADSL with speeds of up to 4Mb/s, for R2 699 per month.

Update:

Technical details:

• No thresholds – download all you can.
• Burstable from 256Kbps, 512 Kbps and 1024 Kbps.
• No rolling windows – go for it. We understand downloads.
• The account allows for 2 concurrent ADSL lines to be connected at a time.
• P2P and torrents allowed.
• Dynamic IP address.
• Use your own modem/router.
• You must have a Telkom ADSL line and a router/modem for this.
• This is a managed service, with business protocols taking priority.
• Network conditions will determine the speed of P2P and torrents.

This post via PCbuyersGuide, which was via MyBroadBand.