Cell C Straight Up versus Vodacom Smart Plans

[rpm]

Cell C Straight Up vs Vodacom Smart Plans

Is it possible to cut through the complexity and compare Cell C and Vodacom’s new contract packages?

[Randux]

Wonder if Cell C will launch Straight Up Data contracts to kick more Vodacon arse?

[supersunbird]

Article forgot to mention you can get the Cell C Straight Up on Topup as well, which is a big plus (no billing surprises). And you can get the contracts for 1, 6, 12, 18 or 24 months, which is really nice if you go the no device route because then you are not locked into a 24 month contract as with Vodacom. Both things mentioned are important (to me at least when deciding on contracts).

[Nether]

Article forgot to mention you can get the Cell C Straight Up on Topup as well, which is a big plus (no billing surprises). And you can get the contracts for 1, 6, 12, 18 or 24 months, which is really nice if you go the no device route because then you are not locked into a 24 month contract as with Vodacom. Both things mentioned are important (to me at least when deciding on contracts).

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Vodacom will of course ignore this and believe its a small advantage, or be delusional and believe it simply doesn't exist. But CellC have been excellent at forcing they're hands.

[moklet]

Vodacom's are just to complicated as you have to take care of offpeak/peak and on net/off net + of course the 24 month contract. I just want to make a phone call and don't want to worry if it is to cellc/mtn/vodacom and what time of the day it is. It is nice to know I pay 99ct/minute per second billing. I moved over to pepaid (my contract was just finished) and I am currently saving a subsatntial amount with the new cell c rates

[ajax]

Vodacom's are just to complicated as you have to take care of offpeak/peak and on net/off net + of course the 24 month contract. I just want to make a phone call and don't want to worry

What he said. I just want to make a call. Simple.

[scuzzy]

Vodacom TopUp 400s - this is interestingly enough probably still one of your best bets to get the Galaxy S3 on:

R570pm including 250MB

So you can use R100 to buy another 250MB then you have 500MB per month.
That leaves R300pm to make phone calls with, which is probably an average of around 120 anytime minutes.

[Vis1/0N]

On-net minutes. Vodacom is the largest network in South Africa with the most activated SIMS. However, none of my close contacts (15+-) are actually on Vodacom though. Some have Vodacom contracts, but are active on other networks. Most of my calls are to landlines. Vodacom on-net has less value to me than MTN and CellC on-net. That's just for me, though.

[supersunbird]

Vodacom TopUp 400s - this is interestingly enough probably still one of your best bets to get the Galaxy S3 on:

R570pm including 250MB

So you can use R100 to buy another 250MB then you have 500MB per month.
That leaves R300pm to make phone calls with, which is probably an average of around 120 anytime minutes.

That is actually a pretty good deal (unable to construct a matching Cell C deal, close but no cigar), Vodacom should rather focus on marketing their current good deals instead of these lame Stupid Plans...

[Inevitability]

You know, not so long ago one could not even think about comparing a Voda contract to CellC i.t.o the value offered by CellC. Now you almost can, which, imho, means that either CellC is dropping the ball on their biggest draw (which has always been it's value for money) or that Voda is really having to respond to people leaving them and buying CellC contracts. It just seems to me that CellC have, under the ex-Vodacom CEO, now began to drop the concept of being SO cheap that Voda and MTN couldn't respond. I think back to the end of last year when I got data, SMS and minutes everytime I recharged... that was insanely good value, and none of the others could even think of matching it.
Anyway... I'd love to know how many people have ditched their Vodacom contracts and taken CellC contracts ... that would really tell me if CellC is making inroads with these new contracts.
By the way, those "papa" ads are just cr@p. Anyone else think they trying to copy Voda's 'Yebo' and MTN's 'Ayoba'?

[Lydon]

Epic fail on the part of Vodacom. How unnecessarily confusing. Once again Cell C takes the cake.

[Chevron]

Article forgot to mention you can get the Cell C Straight Up on Topup as well, which is a big plus (no billing surprises). And you can get the contracts for 1, 6, 12, 18 or 24 months, which is really nice if you go the no device route because then you are not locked into a 24 month contract as with Vodacom. Both things mentioned are important (to me at least when deciding on contracts).

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[vzta22]

You know, not so long ago one could not even think about comparing a Voda contract to CellC i.t.o the value offered by CellC. Now you almost can, which, imho, means that either CellC is dropping the ball on their biggest draw (which has always been it's value for money) or that Voda is really having to respond to people leaving them and buying CellC contracts. It just seems to me that CellC have, under the ex-Vodacom CEO, now began to drop the concept of being SO cheap that Voda and MTN couldn't respond. I think back to the end of last year when I got data, SMS and minutes everytime I recharged... that was insanely good value, and none of the others could even think of matching it.
Anyway... I'd love to know how many people have ditched their Vodacom contracts and taken CellC contracts ... that would really tell me if CellC is making inroads with these new contracts.
By the way, those "papa" ads are just cr@p. Anyone else think they trying to copy Voda's 'Yebo' and MTN's 'Ayoba'?

In my opinion, the ball was dropped when Cell C went HSPA+. Before that VC and MTN didn't require to respond to Cell C's price decrease because anyone with a smartphone would not have left them anyway.

From the airtime calling perspective, MTRs were still quite high. Any decrease was not significant enough to prompt a price war. What we saw during that time were more and more promotions - the Ayoba's, yebo's and whoza's.

An interesting time is now. For consumers data is becoming king since it caters for traditional SMSes and voice call replacements. With smartphone you no longer need airtime or sms bundle to communicate with either of them. I can buy some minutes, say on skype, to phone those that do not own smartphones or use other applications to send SMSes. Any mobile operator who thinks by not responding to price cuts will still stay in business for a long time will go back to drawing board when it's too late. Lucky for the 2 big celco's, Cell C and 8ta's broadband coverage is small.

[Ecco]

Nice to see vodacom responding and coming out with better deals for their customers. Also throwing in more minutes, although "on network" minutes are not that great.

A lot of people shot CellC down for their pricing of the Samsung Galaxy S3 on the straight up packages - Vodacom's pricing is similar here.

[Allin]

I like Cell C's contract builder. It would have been nice if it was a bit more "real-time" though, radio buttons next to each option and a running total on the same page. As it is now it is a bit cumbersome, but better than anything offered by any of the other providers.