Cell C roaming costs?

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does anyone know what the international roaming charges are for data on cell c new mobile broadband packages?
and how they compare to VC and mTN?
can find it on their site
 
mith said:
does anyone know what the international roaming charges are for data on cell c new mobile broadband packages?
and how they compare to VC and mTN?
can find it on their site
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Save yourself the pain. Don't roam. Just go pre-paid in the country you are visiting.
 
Yeah, agree with morkhans - NEVER EVER EVER do data roaming. Just buy a new sim card in that country! Even the Cell C CEO himself said, and I quote, that 'roaming is a bitch' (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/15983-R140000-Bill-Roaming-bitch.html)

The Cell C CEO advised international travelers to rather just purchase a connection from a local operator which will save the subscriber from the potential risk of a very high roaming bill.
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EDIT: btw this guy is a legend :D makes me feel pretty good about the future of Cell C...
 
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buying a prepaid card is not suitable as...we travel a lot
and the company pays the data bill....
 
Well your company is going to be paying A LOT of money for your roaming then... Think tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of Rand... And it will more or less be the same on all the networks - because the international operators are the ones sending the bill...

EDIT: On these new packages I'm pretty sure you won't be able to roam at all unless you load them with airtime too.
 
nut123 said:
Well your company is going to be paying A LOT of money for your roaming then... Think tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of Rand... And it will more or less be the same on all the networks - because the international operators are the ones sending the bill...

EDIT: On these new packages I'm pretty sure you won't be able to roam at all unless you load them with airtime too.
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Thing is currently we are on Vodcom....and basically what we want to know is how does the international data roaming rates compare to them.
 
mith said:
Yes i did check that link on your site, but it doest show data rates
if I check for the UK it doesn't show the data rate.
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It'll probably be the same as the GPRS rate on that table?

Edit: If you roam a lot in countries with Vodafone networks, then VC will probably be slightly cheaper... But you'll be paying a whack more for your local data!
 
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mith said:
Thing is currently we are on Vodcom....and basically what we want to know is how does the international data roaming rates compare to them.
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I've heard that Canada is the most expensive - something like R135 000 per GB.

I always buy local SIM cards, not getting myself into deep trouble when my Adobe CS decides to update, or anything like that.
 
nut123 said:
Edit: If you roam a lot in countries with Vodafone networks, then VC will probably be slightly cheaper... But you'll be paying a whack more for your local data!
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Nah, we travel frequently to Africa & asia,
vodafones 'world plan' does not cover a lot of countries there so that's not a factor here.
 
roaming charges are freaking expensive, rather get yourself a data sim at they other side where you visiting, you don't want to do roaming and come back and receive over R60 grand bill or R200 k bill at the end of the month....

If you want roaming then do it but make sure you request a LIMIT like R10 k or so on your sim card, not sure if CELL C does this but I know MTN and VODACOM you can request a call limit amount not sure if it is applicable to contract users.
 
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