Shane Chorley

Vox-owned fibre-to-the-home infrastructure provider Frogfoot Networks said on Friday that it will extend free line speed upgrades, introduced during South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown, indefinitely.

The promotion, which has seen most Frogfoot customers’ line speeds doubled at the same price they were paying previously, will now be re-evaluated on a monthly basis.

Customers on 10Mbit/s and 20Mbit/s packages who had their line speeds doubled now consume about 30% more data

According to Shane Chorley, Frogfoot’s head of sales and marketing, people tend to underestimate their bandwidth requirements.

“Since the Double Up campaign began in April, Frogfoot has noticed that customers on 10Mbit/s and 20Mbit/s packages who had their line speeds doubled now consume about 30% more data,” he said.

Various other home fibre providers, including Openserve and Vumatel, have announced initiatives during the lockdown to provide more bandwidth to their customers at the same price points.