Ceasefire in mobile broadband price war?

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/1226.html

 

[AirWolf]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/1226.html

When will we see data rollover and decreased oob costs?

 

[morkhans]

"The result is that consumers benefit from aggressively priced mobile broadband products. What is interesting is that Vodacom and MTN’s 3G/HSDPA offerings compete favorably against the current ADSL offerings on both speed and price – something that is unheard of in the developed world. Price changes in the fixed line space will therefore have a direct impact on strategies from the wireless players."

This point is only valid because ADSL is so much more expensive in SA than the rest of the world. Also when you start moving up the usage scale then then ADSL becomes much cheaper.

 

[ic]

Maybe it has been mentioned before, maybe not, but MTN appears to be quite a yellow-bellied coward in this so called price war for copying Vodacom's pricing almost exactly - the only exception being MTN's 350MB data bundle which is less expensive per MB than Vodacom's 250MB data bundle.

Also, what sky.akash posted, we want Data Bundle Rollover from both Vodacom and MTN - the first to provide it will be the hero. After that uncapped would be nice...

 

[Sselmrah]

Vodacom will also do well in matching MTN's smaller bundles on prepaid. I actually have better reception on Vodacom than MTN where I live, but I stick with MTN because they offer the 100mb/R80 bundle. This obviously becomes a non-issue when they offer bundle rollover.

 

[emmanuel]

If Neotel does not create significant price lowering, the three MTN, Vodacom and Telkom will just sit there or thereabouts with their prices because they seem to be competing for the same client.

Until MTN and VC keep selling products without roll-over and where I need to guess how much I'll use and then jump through hoops to get more or pay exorbitant prices for out-of-bundle usage, things will move slowly.

Once roll-over is introduced and a standard package exists where I pay Rx each month for first GIG and then get the rest on auto-prepaid which rolls-over, they'll see growth they'd struggle to handle.

 

[StrontiumDog]

Maybe it has been mentioned before, maybe not, but MTN appears to be quite a yellow-bellied coward in this so called price war for copying Vodacom's pricing almost exactly - the only exception being MTN's 350MB data bundle which is less expensive per MB than Vodacom's 250MB data bundle.

Also, what sky.akash posted, we want Data Bundle Rollover from both Vodacom and MTN - the first to provide it will be the hero. After that uncapped would be nice...

Yip, completely wasted what opportunities exist in acting second! For example, they could have made their prices R1 less than all of VC's prices and held the title of cheapest mobile broadband provider

 

[Tns]

sorry but i fail to see the so called price war.