Few businesses can afford the cost of Internet downtime. It’s not just a case of not being able to browse favourite websites – it translates into an effective communication freeze between the business and its customers, suppliers and branches. In addition, as more and more business start utilising Cloud services, the need for 100 percent uptime on Internet connectivity is rapidly becoming mission critical because without being able to access their services in the cloud, the business could literally come to a standstill.

However, no Internet Service Provider is able to guarantee 100 percent connectivity to the Internet at all times. Regardless of how much redundancy is built into the network, cables can still be stolen or damaged and faults can occur along the link. “The only way to ensure that your Internet connectivity remains available at all times, is to have a redundant, secondary link in place,” says Hennie van Tonder, Head of Product at MWEB Business. “This means that should the business’ primary link go down, the secondary link will automatically take over, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity.”

The problem is that this level of redundancy can be expensive. For many businesses, particularly those on a tight budget, investing in an effective failover solution – like any short-term insurance - is a grudge purchase. MWEB Business has now introduced a range of new, exceptionally cost-effective and competitively priced 3G failover bundles. “Because MWEB has 3G agreements with all three cellular service providers, we are able to offer customers the most appropriate service for their specific location,” Van Tonder says. Depending on the customer’s location, the MWEB 3G failover bundle can cost as little as R39 for 500MB of data.

In addition, MWEB Business delivers an unmatched Out-of-bundle rate of just 15c per MB – significantly lower than any similar service currently available.
A pay-per-use rate is also available at just 30c per MB. MWEB Business also offers  customers a monthly failover management fee for just R300 per month which covers the cost of regular failover testing and reporting to ensure the customer’s failover solution is always reliable,