Data is falling

The pricing is misleading. If I earned the minimum wage in UK (£7.50) or ± R115 per hour, then I would not have a problem paying R135 for a GB. Ignoring the living costs in the countries compared, gives a false impression of the affordability of a data bundle.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Don't harp on 4G - here it is being used to put more users on a tower - not to deliver it's speed potential.
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The average 4G speed (across SA, as measure by Ookla) for 3 of SA's is now in excess of 20Mb/s with the other 1 over 15Mb/s.
 
HavocXphere said:
Bought a French Sim the other day...300zar to get 500mb

Ugh
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Prepaid is almost non existent in France, everybody has contracts.

For 20€, you can get a month to month unlimited contract (unlimited voice, SMS and 50Gb of data).

Though you got scammed, for 10€ you can get 1Gb on SFR and Orange.
 
jannievanzyl said:
The average 4G speed (across SA, as measure by Ookla) for 3 of SA's is now in excess of 20Mb/s with the other 1 over 15Mb/s.
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Hi Jannie, too bad Vodacom removed their "data only expires at the end of the next month" thing and kept this stupid 30 days expiry thing, where one has to try to remember that you bought data on the 14th the month before or have to use USSD to see when it expires.

Now Telkom gets all my data monies cause they use the "data only expires at the end of the next month", Vodacom only gets 79c per minute now and then when I make a call.
 
supersunbird said:
Hi Jannie, too bad Vodacom removed their "data only expires at the end of the next month" thing and kept this stupid 30 days expiry thing, where one has to try to remember that you bought data on the 14th the month before or have to use USSD to see when it expires.
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Don't disagree.
 
supersunbird said:
Hi Jannie, too bad Vodacom removed their "data only expires at the end of the next month" thing and kept this stupid 30 days expiry thing, where one has to try to remember that you bought data on the 14th the month before or have to use USSD to see when it expires.

Now Telkom gets all my data monies cause they use the "data only expires at the end of the next month", Vodacom only gets 79c per minute now and then when I make a call.
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jannievanzyl said:
Don't disagree.
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On the subject of things that don't make sense, how is it that bundles go from 30MB to 100MB to 250MB? Nothing in between. I need about 50MB really to make it through so now I have to buy 30MB, budget it, and then it still only lasts 3 weeks.

Screw this, as soon as the share investing starts justifying itself I'm buying a tablet, mifi, and using data from a network that at least makes sense. Will save me an extra R208 a year as well. Then I might as well cancel Vodacom altogether as the main reason I'm keeping it is to get discounted airtime from Smartcall, but with those discounts dwindling more and more I may as well ditch it as it's the only thing forcing me to use Vodacom.
 
Thanks to Telkom and its innovative integrated data sim, i have no worries about data issues on a mobile device.
 
jannievanzyl said:
Don't disagree.
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But if you don't disagree, then are you guys looking to implement that again. Because blimey, by now at least some form of rollover needs to happen on mobile data.

Basically you want customers to buy bigger data bundles because you have more devices, but you cant go big, because you are scrambling to finish it.

Im also in the mobile industry, but the data propositions on the mobile side with every network needs a lot to be desired. You cannot push smart devices into more peoples hands as what Shamiel wants, and knowing the amount of applications people use, and the amount of data they potentially will use, and give them silly prices on data.
 
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