Home-Connect, the latest internet service provider to sell home broadband on Comsol’s new 5G network, is offering the same prices and the same fair-use limits as Afrihost, which already sells packages on the network.
Home-Connect announced its Comsol partnership on Tuesday. Its wireless page lists three “uncapped” Comsol packages: 25Mbit/s for R275/month, 75Mbit/s for R549/month and 200Mbit/s for R875/month. Afrihost’s wireless page lists Comsol packages at the same three prices: 25Mbit/s, 75Mbit/s and a “Wireless Plus” tier, for which it gives no speed.
The throttling is identical, too. Both ISPs cut speeds to 4Mbit/s once usage passes 100GB on the R275 package, 270GB on the R549 package and 440GB on the R875 package. Both sell the same ZTE router. The router price is where they differ: R1 799 at Home-Connect, against R1 499 at Afrihost, which gives it away free with its two dearer packages.
TechCentral reported in August that Comsol would not dictate product structures, that partners would define their own packages and price points, and that no two partners were expected to sell the same thing.
Both ISPs cut speeds to 4Mbit/s once usage passes 100GB on the R275 package, 270GB on the R549 package and 440GB on the R875 package.
The Comsol fair-use limits are also stricter than those Afrihost applies on MTN’s network.
Afrihost’s 100Mbit/s MTN package, at R639/month, slows to 20Mbit/s after 250GB and to 10Mbit/s after 500GB, falling to 1Mbit/s only after 1TB. Its R549 Comsol package drops to 4Mbit/s at 270GB. Its MTN Wireless Plus package, at R999/month, slows to 50Mbit/s after 250GB and reaches 4Mbit/s only at 1TB. The R875 Comsol equivalent hits 4Mbit/s at 440GB.
Comsol has sold its network on capacity. “There’s a ton of capacity on the network,” CEO Iain Stevenson told TechCentral in August. The company also said it would not ask partners to stop selling to protect capacity, and would add capacity in busy areas instead.
A wholesale-only network
Comsol, which spent nearly 30 years selling to enterprises, moved into home broadband in August with a network it sells only through partners. It runs on 60MHz of spectrum in the 3.7GHz band, with ZTE as its equipment supplier.
Home-Connect’s other home connectivity products are fibre and Telkom LTE. GM Thabiso Zulu said Comsol’s platform let it add a white-label 5G product “within a matter of weeks”, including integration with its billing and onboarding systems.
In August, Comsol said the network covered more than a million Gauteng households from about 200 sites. Stevenson told TechCentral that Gauteng would have blanket coverage by the end of 2026. Comsol’s own launch statement put full Gauteng coverage at March 2027, with the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal to follow in 2027 and 2028. – (c) 2026 NewsCentral Media
