How much is your cellphone bill?

[blue-eye-boy]

Hi all, just curious. What is your average cellphone bill every month? Mine differ from R120 to R170. My contract cost R29, which include the phone, Motorola v360, 85 min off peak and 15 peak min. The rest is calls and approx 100 sms. Data is approx R100 pm with crappy virgin. What is yours?

 

[RichardG]

my average cellphone bill cost around R2 grand a month..

 

[Telkomisaloser]

Me... R20 a month

P.s. no need to ask us so many times

 

[PoiZoNouZ]

Mine is around R1400 a month, MTN PRO CALL 600, plus data and usually exceed the minutes.
Not enough to warrant an upgrade to 1000 though...

 

[Thestealth]

I'm on about R700/month.

Like my bandwidth allocation, I also have no respect for a cellphone!

 

[medicnick83]

I'm on a weekender with Vodacom, my bill is about on average R600 a month and that includes the 200 vodacom bundle sms and the monthly costs etc.

 

[blue-eye-boy]

Good heavens

my average cellphone bill cost around R2 grand a month..

How the hell do you get it that high!!!

Me... R20 a month

P.s. no need to ask us so many times

Do you get time for anything else, other than using your phone?

 

[hashbrown99]

Procall 120 - about R400-450 per month. That's just calls though

 

[rexter]

am on a procall 600 but my bill amounts to +- R3200.00 a month, am gona upgrade now to the procall 1000 and mtn says since i am a vip client i can have any fone i want - no charges upfront or included in installments... but hey im still gone pay for it lol

 

[adamr]

am on a procall 600 but my bill amounts to +- R3200.00 a month, am gona upgrade now to the procall 1000 and mtn says since i am a vip client i can have any fone i want - no charges upfront or included in installments... but hey im still gone pay for it lol

thats car payments ... i sure do hope you drive a better car than one that would cost R3200 per month ... hehe .... kidding!

btw im on a business top up contract so fixed monthly costs for me ... before when i was on weekend everyday my average usage in the two years was R1400 per month

 

[rexter]

thats car payments ... i sure do hope you drive a better car than one that would cost R3200 per month ... hehe .... kidding!

hey adam to be honest im not really proud about paying that kinda money every month but i do have to keep in contact with my clients and thats a costly business... nobody is available nowadays on their landlines and to me this money is eating away at my profits

 

[mohammedm]

ARe we being ripped off in SA?

I was on a CellC ActiveChat100 (R249 p.m. with 100 free anytime minutes), but my bill used to be between R500 and R600 per month. I did not have a landline.

I have now moved to Australia and have taken a month by month "postpaid" contract with 3Mobile using my own Nokia E90.

I now pay $29 (R180) per month and I get $120 (R720) worth of airtime to use on local and international call, sms (local and international) - in fact I can use it on anything except video calls. I also get $70 (R420) worth of call to other 3Mobile users - my wife is on the same contract, so call between the 2 mobiles are essentially free.

I have to pay R0.75 to call the Helpline though and about R0.60 to retrieve voicemail. Even with this and numerous international calls, I have not gone over my allowance yet.

As an addition, I have also taken out a $20 (R120) X-Series bonus pack. With this, I get:
- unlimited access to the 3Mobile portal of New, Sport, Weather, Comedy, Live Cricket TV (Yes - live TV on a Nokia E90) etc.
- 500MB per month of HSDPA data.
- 1000 Skype minutes per month using a dedicated Skype application where the call quality is excellent - try using this up every month.

There are certain things that Australian network operators cannot do, and SA may be more cutting edge, but you can't beat them for value for money. The SA big three have succumbed to the age old South African legacy of greed, price collusion and ripping the public off.

 

[rexter]

I was on a CellC ActiveChat100 (R249 p.m. with 100 free anytime minutes), but my bill used to be between R500 and R600 per month. I did not have a landline.

I have now moved to Australia and have taken a month by month "postpaid" contract with 3 using my own Nokia E90.

I now pay $29 (R180) per month and I get $120 (R720) worth of airtime to use on local and international call, sms (local and international) - in fact I can use it on anything except vidfeo calls. I also get $70 (R420) worth of call to other 3Mobile users - my wife is on the same contract, so call between the 2 mobiles are essentially free.

I have to pay R0.75 to call the Helpline though and about R0.60 to retrieve voicemail. Even with this and numerous international call, I have not gone over my allowance yet.

As an addition, I have also taken out a $20 (R120) X-Series bonus pack. With this, I get:
- unlimited access to the 3Mobile portal of New, Sport, Weather, Comedy, Live Cricket TV (Yes - live TV on a Nokia E90) etc.
- 500MB per month of HSDPA data.
- 1000 Skype minutes per month using a dedicated Skype application where the call quality is excellent - try using this up every month.

There are certain things that Australian network operators cannot do, and SA may be more cutting edge, but you can't beat them for value for money. The SA big three have succumbed to the age old South African legacy of greed, price collusion and ripping the public off.

yeah mohammed i have to agree with you the 3 main operators we have in sa are rogues in my opinion and are ripping us off but the sad thing is that our government is allowing them to do it.... maybe its time we boycott them... take their contracts and fones and only use the free minutes that should teach them

 

[bwana]

The SA big three have succumbed to the age old South African legacy of greed, price collusion and ripping the public off.

The SA big three haven't succumbed - they've embraced and refined it to almost an art form.

 

[rexter]

sorry bout the triple post guess my fingers wer a bit to fast

 

[bwana]

sorry bout the triple post guess my fingers wer a bit to fast

No worries - I guess there was yet another hiccup.

 

[ic]

There are certain things that Australian network operators cannot do, and SA may be more cutting edge,

How so? - from what you've described 3Mobile sounds excellent.

 

[mohammedm]

How so? - from what you've described 3Mobile sounds excellent.

1. I had to get used to paying for voicemail retrieval and for phoning the network call centre.
2. They are only rolling out HSDPA now - upgrading the old CDMA network.
3. None of them (except Optus/Telstra, I think) offer data on prepaid. This is a hassle if you want to roam and surf the net, especially if you have just come from another country. Main reasons are to prevent kids accessing the net (you have to show ID to get a SIM card) and also they do not have have billing like SA does - so your data usage only gets updated 2 days later. They do however, offer POP email, but charge R1.20 for every message you send out.
4. Coverage is poor outside major cities, even half an hour out. You may get roaming coverage on another network, but you call costs then increase. SA coverage is very extensive.
5. No real choice of mobile phones on contract. The networks choose only 3 or 4 decent handsets, test them extensively and then offer them only those to you. Those handsets are branded, but in Australia that is not an issue. That is why I brought my N80, N73 and E90 with me.
6. No fancy services like VC track your mobile etc.

 

[GTi]

So Australia is behind SA in telcoms , who'll guess that? Freaking weird.

 

[GTi]

My contact is mycall 100 and my monthly bill is between R159 - R160 pm. I stick to the contract terms like glue , I use the landline @ work for long calls, because I am in a 24/7 enviroment, so I spend most of my time @ work. Weekends I make most of my social calls for free on my cellphone.