Frogfoot Launches No-Contract Fibre From R399 a Month

Frogfoot switched on a new fibre tier called Leap this week, and it's aimed squarely at a market mainstream contract fibre has never served well: lower- and middle-income suburbs where a 24- or 36-month contract, a credit check and a router deposit are real barriers to getting connected at all. According to MyBroadband's report, published 12 August 2026, the pitch is simple - three uncapped packages from R399 to R999 a month, no fixed-term contract, no credit check, and a Wi-Fi-enabled ONT included so there's no separate router to buy. Customers who'd rather not commit to a monthly debit order at all can instead buy a prepaid voucher, starting from R125 a week.

The first suburb live on Leap is Lotus Gardens, on the western edge of Tshwane next to Atteridgeville - a mixed lower- to lower-middle-income community, with Frogfoot's rollout passing an estimated 4,000 homes there to start. Frogfoot has said more areas are coming, but hasn't named a second site or published a rollout timetable as of today.

All three tiers are uncapped and symmetrical or near-symmetrical, and every plan includes the Wi-Fi-enabled ONT at no extra cost - a real saving next to contract fibre deals that often bill a router separately. Extra wired Ethernet ports beyond what's built in can reportedly be added through Frogfoot's existing Port Booster add-on.

Run the price-per-Mbps math and the tier order gets more interesting than a simple "pay more, get more" ladder. Leap Plus comes out cheapest per Mbps of the three at R1.83, undercutting even the entry Leap Family tier at R3.99 per Mbps. For a household that can stretch to R550 a month, that tier is the better buy on pure value - the entry tier's real advantage is the lower absolute monthly outlay, not a better rate.

Alongside the three monthly tiers, Frogfoot is offering prepaid vouchers "from R125" a week - the same pay-as-you-go structure Frogfoot Rise, Vuma Key and Fibertime all use, where the connection is uncapped and unthrottled for as long as the voucher's active period lasts, rather than being metered by data.

We're showing that gap rather than guessing at it. It would be easy to assume the R125 voucher maps to the entry Leap Family tier, in the same way Frogfoot Rise's cheapest voucher maps to its cheapest monthly plan, but nothing in the reporting we could verify today states that explicitly - so we're not presenting an assumption as a confirmed fact.

Leap isn't the first no-contract fibre product aimed at South African households outside the mainstream suburbs - it's Frogfoot's second, after Rise, and it enters a category that already includes Vumatel's Vuma Key and the independent operator Fibertime. All four share the core pitch: no fixed-term contract, no credit check, and a prepaid option billed by time connected rather than data used. Where they differ is speed tiers, monthly-plan pricing and which network's own infrastructure each one rides on.

We cover that wider category - how the voucher model works, where it's available, and how to weigh it against a standard contract fibre deal - in our prepaid and township fibre explainer and in our head-to-head of Vuma Key vs Fibertime. Leap's arrival adds a third serious no-contract option to that comparison, on Frogfoot's own network rather than Vumatel's or an independent operator's - worth checking against those two if Leap's coverage hasn't reached your area yet, since availability is what actually decides most households' choice in this category, not headline pricing.

This article's core facts trace to a single MyBroadband report, published 12 August 2026. We attempted to read that article directly today and could not - MyBroadband's server returned a 403 error to our automated fetch, the same bot-blocking behaviour already documented on this site for Webafrica's own pages. We also attempted to reach Frogfoot's own newsroom and about-us pages directly and got a 503 error from Frogfoot's server both times.

Because neither primary source was directly reachable, we corroborated the story a different way: multiple independent search queries against the same underlying MyBroadband article, run separately and returning consistent figures each time (the R399/R550/R999 tier prices, the 100/50, 300/300 and 500/500 Mbps speeds, the Lotus Gardens/Tshwane pilot site and its ~4,000-home footprint, and the R125 weekly voucher floor all repeated identically across separate queries). We also independently verified that Shane Chorley is Frogfoot's real, current CEO - appointed 1 April 2023, confirmed separately by TechCentral, ITWeb and MyBroadband's own past reporting - rather than taking the attribution on faith.

What we're treating as solidly confirmed: the Leap product name, the three tier speeds and prices, the R125 weekly voucher floor, the Lotus Gardens pilot and its home-passed figure, and the no fixed-term contract/no credit check terms. What we could not independently confirm to our own bar - and are flagging rather than presenting as fact - is the exact device-limit and wired-port figures for each tier, the full voucher schedule beyond the R125 weekly floor, and the precise wording of any quote attributed to Frogfoot's CEO. If you're considering signing up, confirm current terms directly with Frogfoot before committing.

Frogfoot has launched a genuinely new no-contract fibre tier, Leap, running R399 to R999 a month plus weekly vouchers from R125, first live in Lotus Gardens, Tshwane. It extends the model Frogfoot itself pioneered with Rise in 2023, and puts a third serious contender - alongside Vuma Key and Fibertime - into the no-contract fibre category for South African households mainstream deals have priced out.

For nearly everyone outside Lotus Gardens today, the practical takeaway is to watch this space rather than act on it immediately: Frogfoot hasn't named a second Leap site yet. If you're in a lower- or middle-income suburb without an affordable fibre option today, this is worth checking against Frogfoot's own coverage map and against Vuma Key and Fibertime as Leap's footprint expands.