3G on Virgin - SOON!!!

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Tim182

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3G on Virgin - Honestly, I don't think it will ever happen.

I must say, I am not a big fan of Virgin Mobile and the only reason I remain with them are their free sms.

However, today for the first time I heard good news from the company. Finally they are introducing 3G network coverage, it was supposed to go live 1 July but there were some problems. But they should be sorted out soon.
 
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Still 60c/meg? I might even go rica myself to get a sim in that case
 
battletoad said:
Still 60c/meg? I might even go rica myself to get a sim in that case
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Tim182 said:
Still 60ct but I wouldn't be surprised if that changed once they introduce 3G. Let's wait and see
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BLIXEMPIE said:
Great news!
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Sorry guys...dont mean to invade your Virgin section...but was reading this out of curiosity. I dont understand why you guys are so excited about 60c/meg? That works out to R600.00 per GIG!!!! Vodacom, if you activate the 1Gig bundle, it works out to R289.00 or 28c/meg....and vodacom have now increased the bundle sizes so now you get 1.2gigs for the same price!!! And this is on the 3G/HSDPA network. Virgin only has EDGE.

Am I missing something? You guys know something I dont? I am really just curious.
 
alf101 said:
Perhaps they prefer to not have to buy a gig of data.
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oh ok. makes sense I guess. I just saw you guys wetting yourself because of the 60c/meg...and was like WTF??? lol...but yes, I guess if you only use data now and then then it makes sense.

Thanks alf. :-)
 
ocleroux said:
oh ok. makes sense I guess. I just saw you guys wetting yourself because of the 60c/meg...and was like WTF??? lol...but yes, I guess if you only use data now and then then it makes sense.

Thanks alf. :-)
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Well when you compare 60c a MB from Virgin to R2.00 a MB with Vodacom its a BIG difference don't you think?
 
Virgin getting 3G makes absolute sense since Virgin entirely uses CellC's infrastructure and CellC's is busy upgrading their network to a 3G network.
 
Virgin needs to drop the price to sub 50c/MB

The 60c/MB isn't so great anymore. MTN's 75 MB bundle is only R49. So that's 65c/MB for IB and OOB. It lasts for 60 days and you get much better speed than on Virgin.
 
ajax said:
The 60c/MB isn't so great anymore. MTN's 75 MB bundle is only R49. So that's 65c/MB for IB and OOB. It lasts for 60 days and you get much better speed than on Virgin.
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Virgin is still better value unfortunately... For R150 I get a phone, unlimited sms and R150 airtime which give me 50Mb and something like 60 minutes of calls. Then I can sell the phone for R2000 and basically have a free contract for 13 months. So once Virgin gets 3G I'll be really happy!
 
it looks like its true. I just had a 3g signal for about an hour now.
 
spidaman said:
it looks like its true. I just had a 3g signal for about an hour now.
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Really! THey must be doing final tests now, where in SA are you based? My phone is EDGE only so can't test right now, getting a 3G phone this week however so will test and report in Cape Town
 
I'm based in PTA east. I ran Opera Mini and opened up a few websites, and it was really fast. At some stage I was running 3.5g, which is HSPA, till I got disconnected and my network reverted back to EDGE.
 
spidaman said:
I'm based in PTA east. I ran Opera Mini and opened up a few websites, and it was really fast. At some stage I was running 3.5g, which is HSPA, till I got disconnected and my network reverted back to EDGE.
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got my new phone still edge in cape town atm
 
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