<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by greedyflyza</i>
<br />MTN seems to have a newer technology threshold - they seem to bring out the newest stuff first and seem to have the latest technology. However, Vodacom concentrates on new products within the scope of their current offering. They also have more coverage and the most subscribers by far (due to them being first and a powerful initial advertising campaign -- yebo gogo)
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Just for interest, Vodacom recently passed the 10,000,000 subscriber mark in South Africa, and they obtain average revenue of R184/month per subscriber. That's a total income of R1.84 billion per month! I think they're truly making a killing from us :/, draining the masses' disposable income to fill their coffers. They have a further I think 1,500,000 subscribers in other African countries where they provide service.
I remember some years back some evidence came to light that Vodacom and MTN were engaged in illegal price fixing to keep prices high, but that due to some or other technicality the evidence could not be used. Can't remember the details. While one could not at this stage overtly accuse them of price-fixing, just by a simply examination of the market, e.g. the product pricing structures over the years, it is amply clear that there is absolutely no competition going on between the two (nor with Cell C for that matter). Looking at their marketing though, I sometimes think that their three respective advertising agencies are the only ones competing with each other, for best marketing campaign.
<br />MTN seems to have a newer technology threshold - they seem to bring out the newest stuff first and seem to have the latest technology. However, Vodacom concentrates on new products within the scope of their current offering. They also have more coverage and the most subscribers by far (due to them being first and a powerful initial advertising campaign -- yebo gogo)
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Just for interest, Vodacom recently passed the 10,000,000 subscriber mark in South Africa, and they obtain average revenue of R184/month per subscriber. That's a total income of R1.84 billion per month! I think they're truly making a killing from us :/, draining the masses' disposable income to fill their coffers. They have a further I think 1,500,000 subscribers in other African countries where they provide service.
I remember some years back some evidence came to light that Vodacom and MTN were engaged in illegal price fixing to keep prices high, but that due to some or other technicality the evidence could not be used. Can't remember the details. While one could not at this stage overtly accuse them of price-fixing, just by a simply examination of the market, e.g. the product pricing structures over the years, it is amply clear that there is absolutely no competition going on between the two (nor with Cell C for that matter). Looking at their marketing though, I sometimes think that their three respective advertising agencies are the only ones competing with each other, for best marketing campaign.
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