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Gatecrasher
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How are these comparable?
The latter is certainty at last for South Africans on overseas roaming. Significant.
The former is the scrapping of a insane charge that shouldn't have existed in the first place and was costing Vodacom far more in lost business than the paltry revenue it generated. Trivial.
Come on, Vodacom, how about making some real news for a change.
AirWolf
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@ Gatecrasher, VC are only scrapping the charge on HSUPA not HSDPA 
The word simple and MTN should never be used in the same sentence. Their Anytime contracts were to simplify their product range. Using their USSD and voice balance services is very confusing because they don't tell you clearly how much air time you have left. And to top it off they don't carry over air time from a top up to anytime contract - when my sister asked at the local branch when upgrading they said it would carryover.
The word simple and MTN should never be used in the same sentence. Their Anytime contracts were to simplify their product range. Using their USSD and voice balance services is very confusing because they don't tell you clearly how much air time you have left. And to top it off they don't carry over air time from a top up to anytime contract - when my sister asked at the local branch when upgrading they said it would carryover
.CeeBee
Expert Member
HSUPA free on Vodacom? Daaamn, I just paid R50 to activate it just over a week ago 
Ah well, at least its now open for the rest of the guys, and no extra charge from next month.
Good move Vodacom!
Ah well, at least its now open for the rest of the guys, and no extra charge from next month.
Good move Vodacom!
TimTDP
Expert Member
I simply don't understand this!
Overseas rates are CHEAP. Taking into account what a user in Europe would pay, multiply by exchange rate, add SA call cost = A hell of a lot less than MTN are charging. Absolute rip off.
Still purchase more air time for my UK SIM
TimTDP
Expert Member
I have just returned from Europe. Paid a hotel R150 for 3 hour access, unlimited downloads. Perfect for e-mail etc. A quick caculation shows that at R100 / MB I would have paid MTN close to R1200!
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
NGE - Not Good Enough.
Bad Vodacom, now go to your desk and try again!
And come up with some more substantial, not substandardal.
friedpiggy
Expert Member
well free hsupa is a start. now lets see if they bring out anything to follow up on that with
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
Look, Vodacom does not care about what we want, they care about being 1 ahead of the competition. Even if it is just 1mm, it is still ahead. Who gives a crap about what the consumers will want when technically on paper they are "ahead"...
AirWolf
Honorary Master
Well they are still "behind" because MTN doesn't charge for HSDPA, but then you also can't complain about not getting the speeds on MTN because of this.
I can't believe they just don't make HSDPA free to users - the money they are making charging R50 to 2.5% of the users just can't justify it.
wouldn't a LOT more people join the vodacom team if they made their 3G as fast as possible? who cares about 2.5% spending 50 bucks when there could be thousands of new customers joining/switching sides?
also, if everybody downloaded faster, more people would be buying more CAP - if we can't even finish it, why would we buy more?
1)Make it free"
Pro's:
-Real News, attract Customers
-Happier Customers
-Shove it to MTN
-Enable people to download faster, and finish their CAP (to buy more)
Con's:
Won't get R50 of 2.5% of users
2) Charge R50
Pro's:
Make a 50 bucks here and there
Con's:
-Stay behind
-Waste of Network & Technology as nobody is using it
-Lose Customers that are not happy with slow 1.8
-The customers that don't leave, get angry and irritated by slow Network
-Be Average...nothing special
I honestly don't get it - Spent a fortune on creating a 3.6 network and only enabling a few to use it. what a dumbass stratigy.....
hope they enjoy their 50 bob they making in drips and drabs....
wouldn't a LOT more people join the vodacom team if they made their 3G as fast as possible? who cares about 2.5% spending 50 bucks when there could be thousands of new customers joining/switching sides?
also, if everybody downloaded faster, more people would be buying more CAP - if we can't even finish it, why would we buy more?
1)Make it free"
Pro's:
-Real News, attract Customers
-Happier Customers
-Shove it to MTN
-Enable people to download faster, and finish their CAP (to buy more)
Con's:
Won't get R50 of 2.5% of users
2) Charge R50
Pro's:
Make a 50 bucks here and there
Con's:
-Stay behind
-Waste of Network & Technology as nobody is using it
-Lose Customers that are not happy with slow 1.8
-The customers that don't leave, get angry and irritated by slow Network
-Be Average...nothing special
I honestly don't get it - Spent a fortune on creating a 3.6 network and only enabling a few to use it. what a dumbass stratigy.....
hope they enjoy their 50 bob they making in drips and drabs....
Terencek
Expert Member
I might be missing the obvious, but I can't seem to find details of MTN's data roaming charges we are discussing. Could someone please provide a link to them, or just list what's being offered? Thanks!