RSAweb Fibre Deals

RSAweb's headline strength isn't a single cheap tier, it's breadth: 12 FNOs in the standard catalogue alone, plus the pre-paid and Flexi-Connect lines for households that don't want a monthly bill at all. The cheapest live entry point across every product line is Octotel 100/100 Mbps Uncapped at R99/month; run the numbers per Mbps instead and Octotel 2500/2500 Mbps Uncapped at R0.40/Mbps is the better buy for anyone who can stretch to the higher sticker price.

RSAweb runs the same standard-fibre product across 12 FNOs, and the entry price differs a lot depending on which one is lit at your address. This is every network RSAweb resells in its standard catalogue, ranked by the cheapest live tier on each.

The gap is structural, not RSAweb pricing some networks unfairly, entry-level Openserve Web Connect and Evotel Pulse are aerial/entry products built to undercut the core fibre tiers on the same network, while Vumatel and Octotel's cheapest symmetrical tiers sit closer to the market's mid-range. Check which network actually reaches your address before comparing prices across this table.

Openserve is the one network every ISP FastestFibre tracks in depth resells, which makes it the fairest like-for-like price comparison available: same fibre, same FNO, 5 different bills (Webafrica, MWeb, Afrihost, RSAweb and Vox). Every price below is each ISP's live, current-month rate for the identical Openserve tier, and a dash means that ISP does not sell the tier at all.

RSAweb advertises the cheapest price on 8 of the 9 shared Openserve tiers above, and across all 9 it runs roughly 2% above the cheapest ISP on average - the premium is zero on the 8 it leads and lands entirely on the 50/25 tiers, where MWeb come in lower. MWeb undercuts RSAweb on 1 of the 9 tiers the two share.

The advert is not the bill, though, and that is the thing worth taking off this page. RSAweb’s entry rate runs two months and then reverts, so over a full year it is the cheapest to own on only 5 of the 9 tiers we can cost.

Worked example, and it is the inversion rather than a premium: on the 200/100 Mbps tier RSAweb advertises R897/month against MWeb’s R959/month - RSAweb is R62 cheaper on the sticker. Costed over twelve months it is R13 244 against R12 858, so the identical physical line costs R386 more through RSAweb over the first year - before RSAweb’s bundled mesh node is worth anything to a household that does not need it.

That mesh node is the actual case for RSAweb wherever the year-one arithmetic goes against it: a second Wi-Fi 6 access point retails for a few hundred rand on its own, so a household that would otherwise buy one anyway is paying part of that R386 back in hardware it would have bought regardless. A household that is happy with single-router coverage, or already owns a mesh system, is simply paying more for less - and should buy on the twelve-month column rather than the advert.

Flexi-Connect is the third line, but it only reaches seven suburbs (Langa, Pollsmoor Village, Moorreesburg, Struisbaai, Thembalethu, Kranshoek and Bredasdorp), so it's a genuine third option only for households in that specific footprint: no contract, no install fee, and a Wi-Fi-enabled ONT included, running on Octotel rather than Openserve.

RSAweb's standard fibre billing is month-to-month, but the signup flow lets you choose a 1, 12 or 24-month initial term, only the 1-month term is genuinely cancel-anytime. Choose a 12 or 24-month term and cancelling early requires at least 20 business days' written notice before the term expires, cancelling outside a term (including the 1-month option) needs one calendar month's notice. The router itself stays RSAweb property for the life of the service and must be returned within 10 days of cancellation, or its retail value is charged.

The setup fee follows the same logic: RSAweb charges a flat processing fee or the actual FNO installation cost, whichever is greater, even though free installation is promoted on many packages. Confirm both the term length and the install fee at checkout rather than assuming the cheapest-looking option applies by default.

Who should look elsewhere: anyone whose only goal is the lowest possible monthly bill on Openserve should compare MWeb and Webafrica first, RSAweb is not price-competitive there. Anyone who already owns Wi-Fi mesh hardware, or lives somewhere a single router already covers the whole home, is also paying for a freebie they won't use. RSAweb's actual target customer is a household that wants dependable local support, a bundled mesh node they'd otherwise have to buy separately, and the flexibility of pre-paid or Flexi-Connect where those apply.