Mobile data costs: MTN vs Vodacom vs Cell C

Rudolph Muller

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

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MTN recently announced that it is slashing its Out-Of-Bundle (OOB) data rates on its broadband data bundles by up to 84%.

MTN SA head Karel Pienaar last week said that these price reductions were made possible by the company’s continual telecoms infrastructure development in South Africa, and that consumers can expect more of the same as the company’s projects start to come online.

The latest OOB data price cuts from MTN mean that they currently offer the best value for money to mobile broadband providers.  This bodes well for MTN’s plans to become the leading broadband provider in the country.

“He who has the most IP packets on its network wins,” Pienaar said jokingly in an interview about MTN’s broadband plans.

The following table provides an overview of the prices associated with mobile data bundles in South Africa:

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