Horribly priced prepaid data

HideInLight

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Up to 3Gigs, prepaid, it's terrible pricing.
Just saying.

Any real offerings before 2020?

R150 for 1Gig still, really?

R300 for 3Gig @ R100, nearly twice as expensive as the other networks still.
 
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Viva

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With Afrihost 1GB costs R99 - still more expensive than I like, but better than Vodacom.
 

Viva

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MTN Prepaid user here, with AH data. R59 for 1 gig for me.

Ah thanks for this. I forgot to qualify my earlier post. With Afrihost

1GB = R99 (prepaid data, only expires after 12 months)
1GB = R59 (expires at the end of the month)
 

mr_norris

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Ah thanks for this. I forgot to qualify my earlier post. With Afrihost

1GB = R99 (prepaid data, only expires after 12 months)
1GB = R59 (expires at the end of the month)

You can go Axxess, which is like a rand or two cheaper, and they have a 3 month rollover.
 

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The only way I've got around this is to go onto a flexi contract which gives me 350 airtime to do as I please for R250. So basically pay R250 get effective 1GB and 110minutes.
 

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R139 for 2GB at TM, if a annual bundle its even cheaper. It's so cheap nowadays I don't understand why others suffer
 

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You can go Axxess, which is like a rand or two cheaper, and they have a 3 month rollover.

That's certainly a good option for some. However, I quite enjoy Afrihost's clientzone and integration with other services. For now I'll pay for this luxury.
 

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The only way I've got around this is to go onto a flexi contract which gives me 350 airtime to do as I please for R250. So basically pay R250 get effective 1GB and 110minutes.

I'm not sure the value is very high here.

With Afrihost's "Mobile S", you can get ±100 minutes (= R79) + 2GB data for R199 a month.
 

mr_norris

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That's certainly a good option for some. However, I quite enjoy Afrihost's clientzone and integration with other services. For now I'll pay for this luxury.

LOL, that's the same reason I'm with them :p
 

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That's certainly a good option for some. However, I quite enjoy Afrihost's clientzone and integration with other services. For now I'll pay for this luxury.

Axxess also has a clientZone that can do the same, it's just not as fancy looking.

Plus the rollover can really work in your favour if you know how to "work it".
 

johnjm

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Telkom More gives you free airtime to use for calls etc.

If you load R100 say, you have R100 but another R100 for calls. So if you keep on loading increments if R100 you get free airtime and can still use the original airtime for bundles etc.

Only catch is if you buy airtime bundles then it doesn't utilise the free airtime.
 

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This is what seriously irks me about Vodacom! :mad: An additional gig of data was costing me R149 a month even though they had a promo going on for 2gb @ R99 p/m. But for some asinine reason they can't add a data contract onto a cellphone contract so I was forced to take out another contract for a MiFi device which worked out to the same price as a 1Gb data top-up! Seriously, how the *&^% does it make any sense to give me a ±R1500 4G MiFi device and more data instead of just allowing me to tack it on to my existing contract? ASUIYtE.gif
 

HideInLight

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Ok someone wake me up when you can get 5Gig at R300 without contract, with LTE and have the network actually be stable for gaming.
MTN sucks badly here, and CellC delivers once in a blue moon on the stability front.
 

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R289 for 5gigs.. When I dial *111#, however it is a contract sim. What does it show on prepaid?
 

HideInLight

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R289 for 5gigs.. When I dial *111#, however it is a contract sim. What does it show on prepaid?

R400, just don't want anything to do with contracts at all. Too many bad experiences, pay less to get screwed more.
I'm against the way Vodacom tends to scale networks.

You should get the same value from buying 1Gig per meg as buying 5Gig period.
This give more to the people who buy more thing is just gonna have to stop, it's essentially punishing the poorer South Africans.
Give substantially less to the people who cannot afford to spend more type scenario.

Would of been a different story if we were talking about 30gigs+, for a discount.
But were talking about making entry level data super expensive.

If you look at the price per meg for 1Gig vs 5Gig, the 1Gig is 100% more expensive.
 
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