Advice for Vodacom on data pricing

Do you approve of MyBroadband's proposed data pricing for Vodacom?

  • Yes

    Votes: 129 63.2%

  • No

    Votes: 75 36.8%
  • Total voters
    204
zamicro said:
I voted no, because I will still not use any of the products at the proposed prices.
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+1

I have DSL at home which means I don't need more than about 200MB per month for my cellphone. At current Afrihost prices that 200MB is about R2.00

Surely they can bundle about 200MB FREE for the contract users per month????????????
 
I vote yes.

Cheaper data is better data!

Plus - Saving me R100 per bundle purchase will pwn (Till my ADSL comes.... One day...)
 
You can get 5GB for R299 per month from CellC with a modem included.
The recommended price of R565 for 5GB from Vodacom is way too much. Almost twice as much.

Not to mention if you've got cash and buy the CellC prepaid bundle, 5GB works out to R166 per month. Here Vodacoms proposed pricing is over 3 times as much.

I don't think you can call the CellC bundles a special anymore. After all, they've been available for over half a year.
 
Comparing marginal prices (i.e. price of 1 additional gig):
Gig from Vodacom = R185 (hypothetical pricing)
Gig from Afrihost = R29

Essentially VC/MTN/CellC only makes sense for people who either:
  • Must have mobility
  • Use very very little data ~500mb

So: Any price reduction is welcome, but I'm not moving to VC/MTN even if they halve prices 3x in a row.
 
Its just blah blah blah...they sre following the Whooooooooooooooooooooooosh leader.

Their so called blacksheep in the family had family taught them a lesson. Once my contracts are up I will NEVER EVER GO BACK TO VODASCUM. Cell C has finally dented their revenue, thats whats this all about. The rebranding is just a fascade for them to save face...

Too little too late. Damage Control...I don't think so.
 
The point is CEL C is

24gb for R1000
and 60gb for R2000

which is WAY CHEAPER??!
actually more than 50% cheaper at R0.0416/mb

With whom is Vodacom competing??
 
Instead of paying R185 for 500Mb I could get 1Gb. I'd take that. ;)
 
Well, imagine that - while better, they would need to give me more than 1.2MBit/sec on my 8 Mbit/sec modem consistently and stop blocking basic vpn services before I would even consider making them a primary service. My Telkom ADSL and unshaped Afrihost account beats their service any day.
 
I would love the MyBB's pricing model!!

And Vodacom would make so much money that they can buy Vodafone. :p
 
*Who's complaining about the red? I love the red. :love:

Makes me think I'm back in England on my Vodafone contract. :)
 
No. Too high. I use 5GB a month. Only need 100MB on my phone.
I've cancelled ADSL, ;lowered MTN data bundle to 100 MB and use the CellC 5GB prepaid stick - cheapest solution overall for me.

The proposed pricing would not be reason enough for me to switch to VC
 
If you can get 5c a Mb from Cell C (with much faster speeds - for most people) why on gods earth would anyone pay 3x that for an embarrassingly slow 1-1.5mbps???

For those who say, oh but that's for 12 months at a time - I would reply, do you only need cheap data for this month?

And for those who answer yes, then I'd say - well then my friend - you shouldn't complain about paying Vodacom/MTN/8ta prices, since your low usage isn't worth worrying about.
 
Cost Conscious said:
If you can get 5c a Mb from Cell C (with much faster speeds - for most people) why on gods earth would anyone pay 3x that for an embarrassingly slow 1-1.5mbps???

For those who say, oh but that's for 12 months at a time - I would reply, do you only need cheap data for this month?

And for those who answer yes, then I'd say - well then my friend - you shouldn't complain about paying Vodacom/MTN/8ta prices, since your low usage isn't worth worrying about.
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You miss two important points:
Firstly it's a cashflow issue for a lot of people, and secondly not everyone has consistent data usage. I freelance and my mobile data requirements vary from next to nothing one month to a few Gigs the next. If Cell C want that market all they have to do is launch a woosh 'special' on pay as you go bundles. I wish they would do it already.
 
Voted No. Sad fact that even slicing the prices in half they remain extortionate. VC let greed get in the way of providing an honest product at an honest price. The cliff they are perched on might just be too steep for them to ever climb down. If they cut prices, volumes won't necessarily increase to compensate for it because the data will always be cheaper elsewhere. They should have been on this road of reducing prices and increasing volumes while they were still the market leaders. If they had, they would have remained the market leaders. Their strategy of inertia may have made them lots of short-term money, but it has lost them the goodwill of South African consumers and the market initiative.
 
No! Why should we pay R185 for 1GB when we can get 2GB for R150pm, including a modem. Don't think bundle prices should be any more than R100/GB for the first GB, decreasing thereafter. Ie 2GB for R180 etc.

Even that may be too much - why should bundels be so much more expensive than the 2GB packages? Sure the contracts ensure revenue for a period, but they also include a modem which obviously increases costs for the provider.
 
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Gatecrasher said:
Voted No. Sad fact that even slicing the prices in half they remain extortionate. VC let greed get in the way of providing an honest product at an honest price. The cliff they are perched on might just be too steep for them to ever climb down. If they cut prices, volumes won't necessarily increase to compensate for it because the data will always be cheaper elsewhere. They should have been on this road of reducing prices and increasing volumes while they were still the market leaders. If they had, they would have remained the market leaders. Their strategy of inertia may have made them lots of short-term money, but it has lost them the goodwill of South African consumers and the market initiative.
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+1

Couldnt say it any better.
 
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