Sign up with GoogleDisingenuous? Not in this case. Chicken, stingy, cautious or perhaps unadventurous but certainly not "lacking in candour" or dishonest.
The Giga 200 from CellC IS going head to head with 8ta's 60+60. There are, however pros and cons on both sides and these will vary from user to user. In some cases CellC will win and in others 8ta will. Time will tell which one is the more popular. In the meantime this is a VERY good deal as is the offer from 8ta.
If all the service providers offered identical products at identical prices and gave identical service how would you decide which one to pick? The service providers would also probably wind up having to defend themselves in terms of the Competitions Act!
I usually switch off the computer at about 23:30. 8ta's offpeak kicks in at 23:00 so I would get to use a portion of the available data over the year. CellC's offpeak starts at midnight so I will probably never use any of the available data so 150Gb means nothing to me. Someone else may, however, be able to make full use of this which will then leave 8ta in the dust.
If I went with CellC I would get about 15Gb less data for the 365 days as I would have been able to use some of the 8ta offpeak data but my download speed would be roughly 4 times faster . Price isn't everything. If I was starting from scratch this would be a no-brainer for me. CellC would win hands down even though their cost to me would be about R36/Gb compared to about R28/Gb from 8ta. (The Wooosh works for me
) As it is, I'm seriously considering writing off over 10 months of the 8ta data and switching back to CellC. This is, however, no longer a no-brainer as it will raise the effective cost of the data I use for the next 11 months to about R70/Gb. Still not a bad price but I now have to decide between adequate speed and beer or high speed and no beer. I use just under 5Gb per month so the 50Gb will give me just over 11 months. If the bundle was 70Gb I wouldn't be able to use it all. If you use about 70Gb during the day per year then the 50Gb will last you just under 9 months. My daughter uses about 2.5Gb/month, a friend has a cap of 2Gb/month. If you did a survey you would probably find that 50Gb for 365 days isn't an exact fit for anybody. If the bundle is too big it raises the effective cost per Gb. If the bundle is too small it won't last the full 365 days so you have to buy more data a bit sooner than anticipated. 50Gb is, however, probably a good compromise for most people. You can be reasonably sure this is not a thumb-suck and CellC did their homework before settling on 50Gb.
