MWeb on Frogfoot 2026

Every MWeb Frogfoot line is a promotional rate. The catalogue records a 3 months promo window on all 10 of the discounted lines, after which billing reverts to the standing rate. That makes the advertised price a poor guide to what the line costs, and the gap is not small.

Read the first and fifth columns together. The entry line advertises at R599 and averages R732/mo across a full year — a difference of R133 a month that arrives in month 4. A household budgeting off the advertised figure is out by R1 599 over year one.

No once-off charge is folded into those totals. MWeb's own note says its R249 order-processing fee applies to "most packages, but not all", and its feed does not say which are exempt — so we hold no per-product figure and label the totals as being before once-off fees rather than inventing one.

Frogfoot is an open-access network: 50 packages from 5 ISPs run over the identical physical line. The line quality does not change with the badge on your invoice, so on any given tier the only real questions are price, support and what happens when the promo ends. Here is every ISP at every tier.

The pattern is clear and it is not a flattering one for MWeb. It is cheapest on 1 of the 10 contested tiers — 60/60 Mbps, where its R679 undercuts the next ISP's R727 by R48. At 400/200 Mbps it is 5 of 5, at R1 249 against RSAweb's R799 — a gap of R450 a month for the same line.

The headline ranking and the first-year ranking disagree

Here is the finding we have not seen published anywhere else, and it is the reason a price table alone is misleading. Because ISPs run promos of different depths and lengths — and some run none at all — the cheapest headline price on a Frogfoot tier is often not the cheapest line over a year.

Sort that table by advertised price and you get one order; sort it by what you actually pay in year one and you get another. A deep promo that reverts hard can cost more over twelve months than a higher advertised price that never moves — which is exactly why we publish the 12-month column next to the headline one on every money page.

Twelve months is the window most readers budget against, but a fibre contract routinely runs longer than that, and the promo leg stops mattering as the standing rate does the work. Over twenty-four months the same pool ranks differently again — the once-off fee halves in per-month terms while every rand of the reverted rate is still being paid.

We make money when readers click out to an ISP, and MWeb is one of the two ISPs on this site that pays us a commission. So it is worth being explicit: on most Frogfoot tiers, MWeb is not the line we would pick.

Take MWeb on Frogfoot if…

• You want 60/60 Mbps. This is MWeb's one outright win on the network — R679 against R727 from the next cheapest, and it holds over twelve months as well as on the headline.
• You value the support record over the last few rand. MWeb scores 72.6% on MyBroadband's consumer satisfaction survey (Q1 2026, ~1 million speed tests), second of the ISPs it ranks. The median gap to the cheapest ISP across the contested Frogfoot tiers is R285/mo — whether that is worth paying is a judgement call, and a defensible one. See our ISP rankings for the measured scores.
• You want a free-to-use router you never own. MWeb replaces it free while you are connected, which some ISPs do not.

Look elsewhere if…

• You want 400/200 Mbps. MWeb is 5 of 5 here. RSAweb sells the same line at R799 — R450 a month less, for identical fibre.
• You are on Frogfoot Air rather than Frogfoot proper. MWeb's Air line is R559, the most expensive of the 4 sellers we track at that speed. Vox sells it at R435 — 29% less.
• You are shopping purely on the lowest monthly number. On the mid and upper Frogfoot rungs the cheapest headline price is consistently someone else's. Our cheapest fibre deals page ranks the whole market, and Frogfoot fibre deals covers every ISP on this network specifically.
• Frogfoot is not live in your street. It had 406 000 homes passed as at Jun 2025, which is substantial but well short of Vumatel or Openserve. Check our coverage map first, then compare MWeb on Openserve, MWeb on Vumatel or MWeb on Octotel.