Is Cell C Supercharge worth it?

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I intend porting from MTN to Cell C this month.
Reasons:
Cell C is cheaper
Cell C need the support to take on MTN and Vodacom
MTN and Vodacom action against ICASSA

My account is currently with Nashua

I use my phone mainly for voice calls.

My question is:

Is it more cost effective to take out a very small contract, like the Straight Up 30, and purchase my additional air time using prepaid to take advantage of Cell C's supercharge promotion?
 
TimTDP said:
I intend porting from MTN to Cell C this month.
Reasons:
Cell C is cheaper
Cell C need the support to take on MTN and Vodacom
MTN and Vodacom action against ICASSA

My account is currently with Nashua

I use my phone mainly for voice calls.

My question is:

Is it more cost effective to take out a very small contract, like the Straight Up 30, and purchase my additional air time using prepaid to take advantage of Cell C's supercharge promotion?
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Nashua are a bunch of thieves I'd rather deal with the networks directly
 
Well unless Cell C can offer even better rates with a larger set contract, "pay as you go" or a "small contract" is better as it offers much better flexibility and control.

I myself work on prepaid through Cell C. R200 super charge gets me 200 minutes of talk time and 600mb of data (and some cell C to Cell C bonuses).
 
Try out the prepaid first. A mate of mine hates Cell C with a passion, he says it was a massive mistake moving from VC. Check signal in your area. If that's fine, then you can consider staying as is or moving to a contract
 
I'm with CellC. Back in the day when my MTN contract ended, I had the same thoughts - convert to a CellC contract.

Instead I went CellC prepaid to try them out, and I've stuck with them since.

Their current top up specials are awesome. When I put on airtime, I get the equivalent amount of SMS, Megabytes and CellC to CellC minutes.

SMS bundles are cheap as well.

In the Kloof / Durban / Amanzimtoti area, I've never really had many problems. Data / reception seems to be an issue when I need it most (probably like 5% of the time - usually when trying to use Google Navigation).

Others get pretty upset about the call drop rates / reception issues. I haven't really had any issues like those.
 
Also on Cell C prepaid and doubt I will ever go on any mobile contract ever again.

Cell C has had its problems, especially towards the end of last year but thus far this year things seems to be going well [for me at least].
 
CellC Prepaid works like the bomb.
SupaCharge has its benefits - for the data alone.

Try it out and decide for yourself.
 
CellC prepaid is the way to go. For R50 you get around 380MB data.
 
Would have ported to them long time ago ! There signal is non-existent in my house! I was with Virgin Mobile and don't want to travel that route again, frequent dropped calls etc. I am not going to cough up R4 grand just to have signal in my house.
 
To say that Cell C is cheaper than MTN is not really true. Its a give and take and since you are talking about voice only MTN can actually be cheaper than CellC on prepaid.

If you decided to buy the all-net bundle for R30 on prepaid you pay only R0.95 per minute to any network any time. It unludes ALL numbers in SA. If you buy the cheaper bundles like the R7 bundle the rate is R0.99 per minute.

So using the right promo will save you money on Vodacom,MTN,CellC,Virgin Mobile and Telkom Mobile.

Prepaid rates:

Vodacom R1.20 to any network
* R5 power hour promo for 60min on net voice calls
*R3 for 50mb power bundle valid for 1 hour.

MTN R1.20 to any network
*Pay as you go bundles makes call rates cheap to any network.
*Data promo gives you extra data when buying a bundle with no expiry if you use it right

CellC R0.99 to any network
*Supercharge bonus

Telkom Mobile R0.75 to any network
*29c per mb out of bundle rate with sim sonke
*R5 for 1 day unlimited and R20 for 7 days unlimited TM to TM calls

Virgin Mobile R0.99 to any network
*They are THE cheapest network for prepaid calls. Their 1,2 free package is default and gives you 1 free minute for ever 2 minutes used. It makes the effective rate R0.66 per minute any network any time.
 
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