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Johannesburg - Apple recently announced a new tier of its iCloud storage ahead of the next iPhone launch on September 7 but its pricing is not the cheapest for South Africans.

The company earlier this week revealed that a 2 terabyte option had been added to its already existing 50 gigabyte, 200 gigabyte and one terabyte packages.

READ: Apple drops more hints ahead of 'iPhone 7' launch

The new iCloud storage tier comes in at R299.99 per month for South Africans.

iPhone theorists speculate the addition of a new tier to iCloud hints that Apple may reveal a 256 gigabyte version of its next device, come the launch event next week.

But recently, numerous cloud storage options have become available from a variety of service providers.

Dropbox offers users 2 gigabytes for free, while OneDrive from Microsoft and Apple’s iCloud offer users 5 free gigabytes. The most generous offering, though, comes from Google Drive at 15 gigabytes – which includes attachments from emails to Gmail.

Google Drive also extends storage options beyond one terabyte, with 10 terabytes for R1 599.00 per month; 20 terabytes for R3 199.00 and 30 terabytes for R4 799.00 per month.

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Here’s how they all compare:



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