Cell C launches online contract builder

[scuzzy]

I'm really disappointed by these contracts when bolting on a phone.

The contracts are the best by far on the market in terms of value when not taking a phone. The moment though you add a phone, it becomes ridiculous. There needs to be some sliding scale to subsidize the phone the higher you go. This makes no sense, and Cell C had a golden opportunity / idea here to rake in a lot of new clients, but I'm afraid they shot themselves in the foot.

Maybe the Cell C rep, (or Mr Craig :P ) can explain the logic behind these prices?

PS this might help FNB on the other hand to get more ppl to sign up for phones from them and take the contracts w/o phone option

[sajunky]

The contracts are the best by far on the market in terms of value when not taking a phone. The moment though you add a phone, it becomes ridiculous. There needs to be some sliding scale to subsidize the phone the higher you go.

They probably decided what type of customers they want to bring in. If they chose sliding scale, it would not attract customers they want. Here they attract customer who are not interested in expensive gadgets, but talk a lot. If they want shake the market, this is a way to go. Target a right client, it is a clue.

[ajax]

I see now if you want Itemised Billing it will be a whole R27 extra per month

[znubair]

This is what I got from the Nashua Mobile:

S3 32gb on Straight 100, 24 months:
Once off fee R4000 and R200p/m
Total cost over 24 months is R8400

S3 32gb on Straight 50, 24 months:
Once off fee R4200 and R129p/m
Total cost over 24 months is R7316

These deals looks much better

[ajax]

This is what I got from the Nashua Mobile:

S3 32gb on Straight 100, 24 months:
Once off fee R4000 and R200p/m
Total cost over 24 months is R8400

S3 32gb on Straight 50, 24 months:
Once off fee R4200 and R129p/m
Total cost over 24 months is R7316

These deals looks much better

Directly from Cell C we have for the S3
R454 x 24 on Straightup 100. Total cost = R10896 (30% more than N.M.)
R404 x 24 on Straightup 50. Total cost = R9696 (32% more than N.M.)

Pity, I don't like the 3rd party SP's

@znubair, does N.M. include I.B and CLI?

[APoc184]

This is what I got from the Nashua Mobile:

S3 32gb on Straight 100, 24 months:
Once off fee R4000 and R200p/m
Total cost over 24 months is R8400

S3 32gb on Straight 50, 24 months:
Once off fee R4200 and R129p/m
Total cost over 24 months is R7316

These deals looks much better

That looks bloody good. Wife is with Cell C at Nashua and due for an upgrade in a few days.

She already said she will take my S2 if I want to use her contract to get the S3 for myself.

[Mike Hoxbig]

Their phone prices are crazy. Rather buy a phone cash and go month to month.

[znubair]

Directly from Cell C we have for the S3
R454 x 24 on Straightup 100. Total cost = R10896 (30% more than N.M.)
R404 x 24 on Straightup 50. Total cost = R9696 (32% more than N.M.)

Pity, I don't like the 3rd party SP's

@znubair, does N.M. include I.B and CLI?

It says: STRAIGHT UP CLIP R0.00 under monthly cost

[ajax]

Why is there no "downsize" option? Who on earth can go through 400 SMS/month?[/LIST]

I just realized there is a way to downsize if I don’t want more of everything (minutes/sms/data)

For example:
Straightup 30 at R30:
30 mins.
30 sms
30 MB (way too little data for a smart phone)

If I wanted more I could get
Straightup 200 at R200:
200 mins (I'm not such a chatterbox)
200 sms (who sends 200 sms anyway?)
200 MB (hmm, for a smart phone, still not enough)

But let’s say my budget is only R200 per month?
Then take the Straightup 30 and “upsize” the data bundle to 500 MB.
So then, the upsized Straightup 30 looks like this:
30 minutes
30 sms
530 MB
Cost: R180 pm

This leaves still another R20 that I could use on OOB minutes at 99c per minute
So for R200 per month on Straightup 30 I can get:
50 anytime minutes
30 sms
530 MB of data

EDIT: Apologies for the bad math. Fixed.

[znubair]

This contract from Nashua Mobile will do for me...

Samsung Galaxy S3 - Once off cost R4 900
Cell C Control Chat 125 Per Second - includes R145 value (R125 p/m)
Assuming I can convert the inclusive value into a 250MB which will leave me with R45 to make calls at R1.50 a minute all day

[gnomez]

I just realized there is a way to downsize if I don’t want more of everything (minutes/sms/data)

For example:
Straightup 30 at R30:
30 mins.
30 sms
30 MB (way too little data for a smart phone)

If I wanted more I could get
Straightup 200 at R200:
200 mins (I'm not such a chatterbox)
200 sms (who sends 200 sms anyway?)
200 MB (hmm, for a smart phone, still not enough)

But let’s say my budget is only R200 per month?
Then take the Straightup 30 and “upsize” the data bundle to 500 MB.
So then, the upsized Straightup 30 looks like this:
30 minutes
30 sms
530 MB
Cost: R150 pm

This leaves still another R50 that I could use on OOB minutes at 99c per minute
So for R200 per month on Straightup 30 I can get:
80 anytime minutes
30 sms
530 MB of data
So if I use less than 80 minutes, I save money.

Nice breakdown ajax

[rph72]

I'm really disappointed by these contracts when bolting on a phone.

The contracts are the best by far on the market in terms of value when not taking a phone. The moment though you add a phone, it becomes ridiculous. There needs to be some sliding scale to subsidize the phone the higher you go. This makes no sense, and Cell C had a golden opportunity / idea here to rake in a lot of new clients, but I'm afraid they shot themselves in the foot.

Maybe the Cell C rep, (or Mr Craig :P ) can explain the logic behind these prices?

PS this might help FNB on the other hand to get more ppl to sign up for phones from them and take the contracts w/o phone option

Totally agree. Cell C has a golden opportunity to get new clients, but they are messing it up with the price of the handset on these contracts.

[Dryad]

They had at a stage under all deals the S3 at R499 on straight up 100, which meant you paid R9,576 for the phone over 24months
They have removed this now, the only place you now find S3 is under the build your own contract straight up 800 R1,154 over 24, price of phone R8,496.
If they could only give the phone at the Vodacom online prepaid price of R6,999 (https://shop.vodacom.co.za/shop/mobi...tionKey=mobile) would that have not been awesome R391.63 on straight up 100 over 24months. We can only wish I suppose

[ajax]

To be fair, I enquired from Autopage what they have for the S3:
Straightup 200 at R449 x 24.
So their phone price is R249 x 24 = R5976.

And that while Cell C’s contract builder gives R554 x 24 on Straightup 200.
Phone price R354 x 24 = R8496.

So Autopage is R2500 cheaper!

Note they didn't say which version of the S3.

[Ecco]

I just realized there is a way to downsize if I don’t want more of everything (minutes/sms/data)

For example:
Straightup 30 at R30:
30 mins.
30 sms
30 MB (way too little data for a smart phone)

If I wanted more I could get
Straightup 200 at R200:
200 mins (I'm not such a chatterbox)
200 sms (who sends 200 sms anyway?)
200 MB (hmm, for a smart phone, still not enough)

But let’s say my budget is only R200 per month?
Then take the Straightup 30 and “upsize” the data bundle to 500 MB.
So then, the upsized Straightup 30 looks like this:
30 minutes
30 sms
530 MB
Cost: R180 pm

This leaves still another R20 that I could use on OOB minutes at 99c per minute
So for R200 per month on Straightup 30 I can get:
50 anytime minutes
30 sms
530 MB of data

EDIT: Apologies for the bad math. Fixed.

I still reckon that if you more interested in the data, get the 99c prepaid deal and take the 3Gb for 365 days at R399 smart data bundle. Your call rate is still 99c.