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No Telkom infrastructure where I stay. Can only rely on 3G/LTE. Hoping for the 10gig packages to drop just a little more soon from Vodacom as they have the strongest LTE in my area.
 
I don't see how users have such clear preferences and favourites when all the pricings are relatively the same!
 
Gulio said:
I don't see how users have such clear preferences and favourites when all the pricings are relatively the same!
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R299-00 and R499-00 are not the same :p. Also 3G/LTE performance is highly dependent on your area. My point of view is MTN is asleep half the time or kind of just hanging about (nothing innovative, no competitive advantage), Vodacom is too darn expensive but they have a decent network, Cell-C is a one hit wonder with no more steam and Telkom Mobile is coming up strong in urban areas but with mixed results.
 
i'm looking at big bundle to replace ADSL.... i know its crazy to choose mobile when 10Mbps (+-7mbps) ADSL is available, but its now 2nd time in past few months that the tel lines stolen, and already >2 weeks since reporting, zero action from Telkom yet (apart from telling me they are busy with it... not just my line, my whole street must also be fuming by now)

i'm on Afrihost capped, need about 40Gb per month... so i guess closest would be 2 x 20Gb with Afrihost mobile? still gonna be more expensive, but faster, and at least not disabled so long at a time.

Time the providers need to look at 50Gb packages on mobile please.
Since its Telkom's responsibility to get their infrasturcture maintained... why dont they offer Telkom 3G while they take their time with ADSL fixes? :(

btw... i'm sure MTN feels all warm & fuzzy, offering double the price that Afrihost does, using the MTN network :)
 
does anyone know if i can add the mweb/cell c deals to my existing contract?
 
Allin said:
What do you do the last day or so of the month when you either run out of data or have a lot of data left?
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If you run out you top up. If you have a lot of data left at the end of the month you download like hell or forfeit it. :)
 
That table is wrong, Doesn't show the double data from Afrihost!

:whistle:sorry, read it wrong...
 
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Bobbin said:
R299-00 and R499-00 are not the same :p. Also 3G/LTE performance is highly dependent on your area. My point of view is MTN is asleep half the time or kind of just hanging about (nothing innovative, no competitive advantage), Vodacom is too darn expensive but they have a decent network, Cell-C is a one hit wonder with no more steam and Telkom Mobile is coming up strong in urban areas but with mixed results.
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Thats what im saying, Vodacom pricing is on par with the rest of the providers but people carry on like its 5 times the price?
 
Thank you experts. I will stay with Telkom Mobile Starter Pack 2.4GB for R49.
 
CeeBee said:
i'm looking at big bundle to replace ADSL.... i know its crazy to choose mobile when 10Mbps (+-7mbps) ADSL is available, but its now 2nd time in past few months that the tel lines stolen, and already >2 weeks since reporting, zero action from Telkom yet (apart from telling me they are busy with it... not just my line, my whole street must also be fuming by now)

i'm on Afrihost capped, need about 40Gb per month... so i guess closest would be 2 x 20Gb with Afrihost mobile? still gonna be more expensive, but faster, and at least not disabled so long at a time.

Time the providers need to look at 50Gb packages on mobile please.
Since its Telkom's responsibility to get their infrasturcture maintained... why dont they offer Telkom 3G while they take their time with ADSL fixes? :(

btw... i'm sure MTN feels all warm & fuzzy, offering double the price that Afrihost does, using the MTN network :)
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Why not stick it out with ADSL and just opt for a mobile back-up solution with one of the month-to-month deals mentioned in the article, or the once-off 'valid for a year' deals Cell C and 8ta have going. Either way, you manage to hang on to affordable ADSL, and have a contingency plan when the lines are down.

I assume that while your lines are down, if you're using mobile data to keep going, you're able to adapt your data usage while you wait for ADSL to come back up. With the month-to-month deals out there, you can scale up your mobile data package for when you need it, and go back down when you don't.

My guess is that doing so will still work out cheaper, even if you can't scale back usage when on mobile. So if you're having ADSL downtime say 3 months out of a year, my guess is keeping your ADSL and having a mobile back-up option will still be much cheaper than aiming to ditch ADSL totally. I don't see the pricing on mobile data coming down far enough any time soon for it to be a replacement option to ADSL on 40Gigs a month.
 
CellC's Giga 200 package (also mentioned by Afrikali) is not featured here, but the best value for money IMO (with Afrihost close behind). R1800 for 50GB peak data + 150GB off-peak data, valid for 12 months, no contract. Until Telkom can give met ADSL/VDSL, I'll be using this for internet.
 
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