Have your say, vote for Data Bundle Rollover

If Data Bundles lasted longer than 30 days, would you buy larger Data Bundes?

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 3 months; OR

    Votes: 91 13.7%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 4 months; OR

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 5 months; OR

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 6 months; OR

    Votes: 30 4.5%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 7 months; OR

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 8 months; OR

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 9 months; OR

    Votes: 5 0.8%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles with no expiry date; OR

    Votes: 92 13.8%

  • Yes, I want Data Bundle Rollover - but I do not want to pay more; OR

    Votes: 437 65.6%

  • No, I do not want Data Bundle Rollover.

    Votes: 6 0.9%
  • Total voters
    666
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vodacom3g said:
To put this into perspective, lets assume everyone buys a 1G bundle in a specific month. Vodacom must ensure that there is enough bandwidth to deliver this. But no-one uses it that month. The cost to deliver is still the same to Vodacom. Although the bandwidth was paid for, it was never used. And you can't keep it in a bucket.

The next month everyone wants double the capability and Vodacom provides this (i.e. roll-over). Now the network must deliver the bandwidth and there will be a general performance hit, effectively everyone will run at ~50% of normal download speed. So the complaints come flooding in. :rolleyes:

To accommodate this, Vodacom must double up on capacity with the corresponding cost implications.

So you can see when the bundle pricing is calculated, projected usage figures are included and contributes to a specific price.

A possibility to get data roll over could include paying some premium for it (as ic suggested before).
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I know that the above is just an example, but IMO the usage for individual users might change drastically over a short period of time, but the general usage patterns of the market as a whole will remain relatively constant. Also there won't be a mad rush on the last few days of the month to use up the contract bundles and the monthly onslaught on the V4me website will be avoided.
 
sky.akash said:
I know that the above is just an example, but IMO the usage for individual users might change drastically over a short period of time, but the general usage patterns of the market as a whole will remain relatively constant. Also there won't be a mad rush on the last few days of the month to use up the contract bundles and the monthly onslaught on the V4me website will be avoided.
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You wanna bet, there will be a rush. I aint gonna loose 700 odd megs. Vodacom aint gonna give me a credit next month when I go over. Is mine I want it.
 
I have about 300MB left, and I know I am going to lose it in about 26 minutes :mad:.

Just checked on v4me, it's actually 372.51MB which I'm about to lose.

@v3g, how about a pilot program, involving say 100 or more MyBroadband members [obviously they would have to be existing Vodacom customers with their own modems & data bundles], where Vodacom examines usage patterns of people whose data bundles are allowed to rollover, during a 3 month period? - I strongly suspect that Vodacom would find that people's data usage patterns over a 3 month rollover period, combined with an initial data bundle of at least 2GB, would actually reduce network congestion, and would actually help to keep those backhaul bandwidth capacity upgrades further apart.
 
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ic said:
I have about 300MB left, and I know I am going to lose it in about 26 minutes :mad:.
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What about a MyADSL Forum Last-24-hour-dash Download-Request Thread? Or maybe in the classifieds: 300MB Still available on my bundle, what data do you need downloaded? For sale at R1/mb. ;)
 
ld13 said:
What about a MyADSL Forum Last-24-hour-dash Download-Request Thread? Or maybe in the classifieds: 300MB Still available on my bundle, what data do you need downloaded? For sale at R1/mb. ;)
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LOL, yeah it is an idea, but considering the cost of even local bandwidth via ADSL, how does one transfer that data from say my PC to whoever requested it? - sounds like more of a R2.00/MB business to me :(.

BTW, melikes your forum signature :D.
 
ic said:
LOL, yeah it is an idea, but considering the cost of even local bandwidth via ADSL, how does one transfer that data from say my PC to whoever requested it? - sounds like more of a R2.00/MB business to me :(.

BTW, melikes your forum signature :D.
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Prepaid options:
MyADSL Last-minute Data-Download Bundle @ R12 once-off for 5MB* of inclusive data sent via Post on CD. OOB rate of R1.50 per MB. Download(delivery) speeds of up to 2 Weeks!

P&P incl. E&OE
EDIT: The bundled data has to be used within 24hours or otherwise it will be forfeited.

;)
 
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Data bundle data lost +-300 Megabyte's gone

ld13 said:
What about a MyADSL Forum Last-24-hour-dash Download-Request Thread? Or maybe in the classifieds: 300MB Still available on my bundle, what data do you need downloaded? For sale at R1/mb. ;)
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This is a great idea.
How about putting some stats together and see how many actually loose data.
 
Analysis & Snapshot of the poll results so far...

  • Number of overall votes: 226
  • Only 2 voters do not want any form of Data Bundle Rollover
  • which means that 224 or 99% of these 226 voters do want DBR, and out of these 224 voters in favour of DBR:
    1. 144 or 64% of these 224 voters are not prepared to pay more for DBR.
    2. 80 or 36% of these 224 voters are prepared to pay more for DBR.
      • 47 or 59% of these 80 voters want DBR to last for a specific number of months, where:
        • 31 or 66% of these 47 voters want DBR to last for 3 months.
        • 12 or 25% of these 47 voters want DBR to last for 6 months.
      • 33 or 41% of these 80 voters want DBR that never expires.
 
ic said:
  • Number of overall votes: 226
  • Only 2 voters do not want any form of Data Bundle Rollover
  • which means that 224 or 99% of these 226 voters do want DBR, and out of these 224 voters in favour of DBR:
    1. 144 or 64% of these 224 voters are not prepared to pay more for DBR.
    2. 80 or 36% of these 224 voters are prepared to pay more for DBR.
      • 47 or 59% of these 80 voters want DBR to last for a specific number of months, where:
        • 31 or 66% of these 47 voters want DBR to last for 3 months.
        • 12 or 25% of these 47 voters want DBR to last for 6 months.
      • 33 or 41% of these 80 voters want DBR that never expires.
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@ic. May I enquire why is it that your signature is so small. I can almost not read it.
 
Csnoopy said:
@ic. May I enquire why is it that your signature is so small. I can almost not read it.
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3 reasons: [post=1109234]Gru[/post] and [post=1109498]The_Librarian[/post] and a font size of 2 was larger than the default signature font size in my browser when I tried toning down my forum signature...:(
 
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