Financial pressures and increased competition destroying Rain's value proposition

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Rain's worst nightmare

Rain is realising that it is tough to be the fifth mobile operator in South Africa. Financial pressures and increasing competition are destroying its value proposition.

Rain used to be a disruptive force in South Africa’s mobile and broadband market with affordable uncapped products.
 
I have a Rain One work package...works pretty well.... the 10 sim cards have however been thrown away...who the hell wants to use a app to make calls
 
Financial pressures and increasing competition are destroying its value proposition.
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No, they did that on their own by trying to be a one size fits all. How is it that companies in SA have a knack for destroying themselves?
 
Was that article sponsored by MTN or Vodacom lol?

Also when it compares the prices it misses some key points;
-Most others charge up to R1999 for a modem you keep but is useless elsewhere, RAIN gives you it for free and takes it back when you're done.
-Most of the others had an FUP of about 250GB upwards where you're capped to around 10mbps. I've seen RAIN 5G hit 800GB without any speed loss.

RAIN sign-up is piece of cake. I once tried Supersonic and 5 forms, and 10 proof of nonsense later I just told them to keep it lol.
 
The USA only has 3 big players, we do well to have 2.
 
Gudnews said:
The USA only has 3 big players, we do well to have 2.
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Yes but they also have about a dozen smaller or geographic ones to make up for it. I don't get this fascination in SA of trying to be everything for everyone.
 
No one wants another number to make 60 minutes of calls from unless i guess you poor and gonna run around with sims.

Got 2 clients who still use the 4G and it works fine for them but have had to upgrade a few clients to Vodacom when the speeds became useless

MTN Uncapped 5G Premium has a bug or something that gets the dam router blocked even though they supply the ZTE one so that can have its moments
 
mylesillidge said:
Rain's worst nightmare

Rain is realising that it is tough to be the fifth mobile operator in South Africa. Financial pressures and increasing competition are destroying its value proposition.

Rain used to be a disruptive force in South Africa’s mobile and broadband market with affordable uncapped products.
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To be clear. Their sht speeds and sht service is whats "destroying" its value proposition. Oh and the price hikes they snuck in recently
 
Look as long as Rain's paper valuation can continue to be reported as this magic astronomical value it doesn't matter that their business is built on flimsy financial assumptions.
 
Swa said:
Yes but they also have about a dozen smaller or geographic ones to make up for it. I don't get this fascination in SA of trying to be everything for everyone.
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MVNOs are certainly on the rise, Cell C is one in all but name.

mybroadband.co.za

These are the favourite MVNOs in South Africa

A survey by Analytico shows that Afrihost Air Mobile is the most popular MVNO among South African technology professionals.
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Rain should probably have another talk with Telkom.

mybroadband.co.za

Telkom CEO explains why Rain deal broke down

Telkom CEO Serame Taukobong has revealed why their discussions with upstart cellular operator Rain broke down.
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za
 
Madness and greed drove Rain out of the spotlight. funny thing is they are just a 3rd party to the madness much like Axxess and Afrihost they leverage that service off MTN infrastructure, so as soon as that infrastructure fails or whatever their names go into the toilet. Quality over quantity should have been their focus from the get go and slow progressive rollout could have seen a much different aspect to the market. I personally think that quite a few bad decisions were made and sadly moving the responsibility of having your own infrastructure to the likes of your direct competitor is stupid, but who knows maybe MTN is slowly getting out of the Cellular business.
 
Gudnews said:
MVNOs are certainly on the rise, Cell C is one in all but name.

mybroadband.co.za

These are the favourite MVNOs in South Africa

A survey by Analytico shows that Afrihost Air Mobile is the most popular MVNO among South African technology professionals.
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za

Rain should probably have another talk with Telkom.

mybroadband.co.za

Telkom CEO explains why Rain deal broke down

Telkom CEO Serame Taukobong has revealed why their discussions with upstart cellular operator Rain broke down.
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za
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Yes but not just MVNOs but actual networks that make up for the shortfall.

List of mobile network operators in the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
HartsockZA said:
Madness and greed drove Rain out of the spotlight. funny thing is they are just a 3rd party to the madness much like Axxess and Afrihost they leverage that service off MTN infrastructure, so as soon as that infrastructure fails or whatever their names go into the toilet. Quality over quantity should have been their focus from the get go and slow progressive rollout could have seen a much different aspect to the market. I personally think that quite a few bad decisions were made and sadly moving the responsibility of having your own infrastructure to the likes of your direct competitor is stupid, but who knows maybe MTN is slowly getting out of the Cellular business.
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You talking about the right company?
 
Nope, they are causing their own crap with sketchy network reception
 
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