Live Vuma Core and Vuma Reach pricing across every major South African ISP. Compare deals by R/Mbps and order from the provider that suits you.
Vuma fibre starts at R399/month for uncapped 20/10 Mbps on Vuma Reach. Vuma Core contract plans run from R449 (25/25 Mbps) to R899 (100/100 Mbps symmetrical).
| Speed (Mbps) | Price/mo | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 20/10 | R399 | See deal → |
| 25/25 | R449 | See deal → |
| 40/10 | R529 | See deal → |
| 50/50 | R649 | See deal → |
| 100/50 | R799 | See deal → |
Vumatel is the open-access fibre network — they own and run the cables. "Vuma" is the consumer brand for Vumatel's two retail products: Vuma Core (contracted, symmetrical speeds from 25/25 Mbps) and Vuma Reach (prepaid, no contract, no credit check). Same fibre line, different commercial terms.
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For a household of 3 on WiFi, 100–200 mbps gives enough headroom to absorb signal loss and keep every device smooth at peak time.
Vuma Core (contract) and Vuma Reach (prepaid) packages from Webafrica - South Africa's #1 Netflix-ranked ISP. Tap a row to see promo terms, hover the info icons for fine print. Or see the cheapest deals across all networks.
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Five ISPs resell Vuma — same fibre line, very different experience. Cheapest tier shown for each.
Same Vuma fibre line — your ISP determines billing, support, peering and router quality. Sorted by FastestFibre composite score.
Vumatel is lit across the City Bowl, Atlantic Seaboard and Southern Suburbs, with Vuma Reach extending into the flats. Most lines support 25/25 to 1000 Mbps symmetrical.
Suburbs coveredAthlone, Bergvliet, City Centre, Claremont, Diep River, Kenilworth, Observatory.
Check Vuma in Cape TownJoburg is Vumatel's home market — Parkhurst was the first suburb on the network in 2014. Coverage now spans Sandton, Randburg, the Northern Suburbs and the Old South.
Suburbs coveredBryanston, Dunkeld, Ferndale, Fourways Gardens Estate, Melrose, Northcliff, Parkhurst, Parktown, Parkwood, Randburg, Rosebank, Sandton, Sunninghill, Woodmead.
Check Vuma in JohannesburgVumatel's Pretoria footprint is growing fast across Centurion and the eastern suburbs. Where Vuma isn't lit yet, Openserve usually is — check the live map.
Vuma is rolling out across central Pretoria — check the live coverage tool for street-level availability.
Check Vuma in PretoriaKwaZulu-Natal coverage is strongest along the Berea ridge and the North Coast corridor up to Ballito. Vuma Core overlaps with Openserve in most served suburbs.
Suburbs coveredGlen Anil, Glenhills, Prospect Hall.
Check Vuma in DurbanVuma is rolling out across central Bloemfontein in partnership with the major ISPs. The live coverage tool confirms which streets are lit today.
Vuma is rolling out across central Bloemfontein — check the live coverage tool for street-level availability.
Check Vuma in BloemfonteinVumatel's Limpopo footprint is still being built. Most Polokwane suburbs currently rely on Openserve — Vuma is the next FNO to arrive.
Vuma's Polokwane footprint is still being mapped — check the live coverage tool for the latest.
Check Vuma in PolokwaneVuma is the umbrella brand - underneath sit two very different network builds at very different price points. Tap a tab to see what each one actually is, who it's for, and what you'll pay.
The umbrella brand from Vumatel
"Vuma" is the consumer-facing brand of Vumatel, South Africa's largest residential open-access fibre network operator. Vumatel doesn't sell directly to homes - it builds and owns the cables, then leases the line to ISPs like Webafrica, Afrihost, RSAWEB, Cool Ideas and MWEB who package it into the monthly deal you actually pay. Under the Vuma brand sit two distinct products: Vuma Fibre Core (the flagship, contract-style FTTH in suburbs) and Vuma Reach (prepaid fibre purpose-built for lower-income areas). They run on different network builds, different price points, and target different audiences.
Best for
Anyone in SA looking for residential fibre - check both Core and Reach for your address.
At a glance
Type
Open-access FNO
Homes passed
1.5M+ across SA
Coverage
All major metros
Products
Core, Reach, Key
The flagship contract product
Vuma Fibre Core is the original, premium Vumatel build - the network you'll find across Sandton, Parkhurst, Constantia, Sea Point, Umhlanga and most established suburbs. It's a true symmetrical FTTH GPON network with speed tiers from 25/25 Mbps right up to 1 Gbps, and it's sold through ISPs on a monthly billing model (most are now month-to-month with no real contract lock-in). Installation is free on most ISPs, the technician runs fibre from the street box to a wall-mounted ONT, and your ISP ships a pre-configured Wi-Fi router. Because Core is the higher-spec build, it carries the higher headline prices but also the full speed range and the most aggressive promo deals from competing ISPs.
Best for
Suburban households, remote workers, multi-streamer homes, and anyone wanting gigabit-class speeds.
At a glance
Speed range
25/25 - 1000/250 Mbps
Symmetrical
Yes (up to 500/500)
Billing
Monthly contract / m2m
Typical price
R599 - R1,599 / month
Affordable, prepaid, no-contract
Vuma Reach is a separate, cost-engineered network build purpose-designed for lower-income and lower-density suburbs - Soweto, Tembisa, Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha, Mamelodi, KwaMashu and dozens more. The cable plant is leaner (fewer fibres per home, simpler aerial deployment) so the wholesale price drops dramatically. Reach is sold prepaid through ISPs like Webafrica and Afrihost: you load a 30-day pass like airtime, there's no credit check, no debit-order requirement, no cancellation fee, and you get a free router and free install. Speeds top out lower than Core (typically up to 100 Mbps on Reach vs 1 Gbps on Core) but the rand-per-Mbps value is the best in the country at the entry tier.
Best for
Lower-income households, students, prepaid-budget homes, anyone without a debit-order banking setup.
At a glance
Speed range
10/5 - 100/50 Mbps
Symmetrical
No (asymmetrical)
Billing
Prepaid, no contract
Typical price
R399 - R699 / month
The Webafrica Vuma line-up ranked by rand-per-Mbps. Lower is better. The featured bar is the best value Vuma deal we currently track - usually a high-speed Vuma Core or a Vuma Reach top-up bundle.
Prices on this chart change every month. The live Webafrica checker shows the exact promo running on your street right now.
Vumatel sells symmetrical profiles, meaning your upload speed matches your download speed - a structural advantage over LTE, 5G fixed-wireless and most legacy DSL. For households where someone runs video calls, uploads to YouTube, backs up to iCloud or hosts a small business, the upload side of the equation matters as much as the download. Here's how the most-ordered Vuma tiers map to real household use in 2026.
The entry tier. Comfortable for one or two people who stream Netflix or Showmax in HD, browse, and jump on a Teams call now and then. 4K starts to stutter once a second device is busy. Best fit for singles, retirees and small flats.
The South African sweet spot. Two to four people, mixed work-from-home and streaming, one 4K TV and a console. This tier is where Webafrica sees the highest customer-satisfaction scores - enough headroom that nothing fights, without paying for capacity you'll never touch.
Big households and serious remote workers. Multiple 4K streams, two or three video calls, gaming on PS5/Xbox/PC, plus regular cloud uploads. Future-proofs against the next two years of bandwidth creep from streaming services and AI tools.
Power-user territory. Useful if you genuinely shift large files (4K video editors, photographers, software developers pulling Docker images) or run a small home office with five-plus active devices. For most households, anything above 100 Mbps is bragging rights, not benefit.
The ceiling on Webafrica's Vuma line-up. A 1 Gbps line will saturate consumer Wi-Fi 6 routers and most laptop ethernet ports - you only see the full speed on a wired multi-gig setup. Order this if you're running a workshop full of devices, an in-home server, or you simply want the fastest residential line Vumatel can sell. Otherwise the 200/200 plan delivers 95% of the felt experience for half the price.
One nuance buyers often miss: doubling your speed never doubles your perceived experience. A page that takes 1.2 seconds to load on 50 Mbps loads in 1.0 seconds on 200 Mbps - the bottleneck is round-trip latency to the server, not your line. Where speed tiers really matter is concurrent load, large file transfer and upload-heavy work. Pick the tier that matches the busiest hour of your week, not the average.
Webafrica ships every Vuma plan with a free Wi-Fi 6 router and free standard install. Pick a tier and the checker confirms availability in 30 seconds.
South Africa is a multi-FNO market. In any given suburb you might have two or three networks competing kerb-to-kerb, and the right answer depends as much on which network was built well in your specific street as it does on the ISP layered on top. Here's an honest, head-to-head read.
Vumatel wins on coverage and consistency. With 1.5 million-plus homes passed and a mature operations team, Vuma installs are predictable and faults are usually resolved inside 24 hours. Pricing is mid-market - not the cheapest line in any speed band, but the closest thing to "you'll never think about your fibre again" that South Africa offers.
Openserve, owned by Telkom, has the largest footprint by raw kilometres of cable thanks to legacy copper-replacement rollout. Where Openserve overlaps Vuma in metros, it's typically a touch cheaper at entry tiers but slightly slower to repair faults. In smaller towns, Openserve is often the only option - and a perfectly good one.
Frogfoot sits between the two on price and reach. Frogfoot's Wi-Fi-included home plans (Frogfoot Air) are the cheapest way to get a usable line into a flat without buying your own router, and the network's peering inside SA is excellent for gaming.
Octotel is Cape Town-centric and famously well-engineered. If you live in the City Bowl, Atlantic Seaboard or Southern Suburbs, Octotel and Vuma usually overlap and either is a fair pick. Octotel's customer support (via the ISP) skews slightly higher in independent reviews.
The decision tree most South Africans land on: if Vuma is in your suburb, default to it; if Vuma isn't lit yet, Openserve is almost always the next best call; check Frogfoot and Octotel on the same address before buying, because the price gaps can be R100-R200/m for the same speed tier.
Open-access fibre means Vumatel sells the same physical line to roughly two dozen ISPs. The cable into your wall is identical whether you sign with Webafrica, Afrihost, Cool Ideas, RSAWEB or MWEB. What differs is everything that sits on top: peering quality, international transit, support response times, router hardware, billing flexibility and how aggressively each ISP traffic-shapes when their core network gets congested.
Independent benchmarks - Netflix's ISP Speed Index, MyBroadband's quarterly speed test results and TrustPilot's South African ISP rankings - converge on the same short list of top performers on Vuma: Webafrica, Cool Ideas and RSAWEB. Webafrica leads TrustPilot in 2026 (4.4/5 from 14 000+ reviews) and is consistently in the top three on Netflix's index. Cool Ideas has near-cult status with technical users for transparent peering and zero shaping. RSAWEB is the premium option for households that want enterprise-grade support at a residential price.
On the other end, the cheapest Vuma resellers in any given month are usually low-margin operations that buy upstream in bulk and undercut on price. They'll work fine on a quiet Tuesday morning - but evenings during peak streaming hours are where you find out whether your ISP bought enough international transit to keep your Netflix at 4K. The R50/m you save against Webafrica is, in our experience, never worth losing a movie night to buffering.
Webafrica's specific edge on Vuma: free TP-Link AX1500 Wi-Fi 6 router shipped to your door, no cancellation fee on month-to-month plans (R999 inside contract), R5 000 setup credit promotions on new lines, and a 14-day activation guarantee that pays you R999 if Vumatel misses the SLA. Stack those against a R30/m saving elsewhere and the maths is straightforward.
A two-minute pre-flight check before placing any Vuma order, drawn from the patterns we see in support tickets and refund requests across the SA fibre market.
Tick those six and you're statistically very unlikely to end up in the unhappy quartile of fibre customers. The number-one driver of a five-star fibre experience in South Africa, repeatedly, isn't speed - it's the match between the package you bought and the household you actually live in.
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