Our pricing cheaper than Europe: Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub

Talking **** Shameel and you know it.
It's just as easy for us to check the pricing in the rest of the world as it is for you.

Also, stop talking ****.
 
Jeez, vodacom is on a fast road downhill with this guy as the brakes (i.e. no brakes). What a tard.
 
This guy must be retarded...

Try Three UK 15GB for £17 (circa R225) per month including modem!

or 10GB per month for £15 (circa R198) without modem!

Try O2 1GB for £10 (circa R132) which sounds expensive BUT it has unlimited Wi-Fi usage.

or Orange UK 1GB for £10 (circa R132) which sounds expensive BUT it has 10GB Wi-Fi usage.

The most expensive in the UK is 250MB for £5 (circa R66) but why so expensive? Ah! It's Vodafone!! :)
 
This is just too funny. This guy is on a roll this week with regards to idiotic, arrogant statements. Please everyone reading this thread vote with your wallets when you can. And do your best to convince everyone you know to do the same. If enough of you jump ship to Cell C or others then we might actually see some real competition in our lifetimes.
 
Mybroadband should reconsider having Vodacon host the mybroadband conference in the future. Having their CEO caught out in a blatant lie trying to pull the wool over the eyes of consumers is disgusting.
 
Ecco said:
Sound like VC copying Cell C.

Otherwise this guy is spewing a lot of BS regarding cheaper data.

Jannie Van Zyl - where are you now? Whats your thoughts on what your CEO has to say?
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Jannie, I think it is time to phone your ex-boss and ask about a job. Surely any job at Cell C must be better than working for a complete dumb@$$ like this?
 
I believe the problem is that we just don't know if these vodacom products can be used as bolt-on packages on voice contracts. I'm always going on about this! 3G=3G=3G, but as far as I can tell there is big discrepancies in pricing between voice bolt-on deals and 3G modem data deals. I'm sure it all is crystal clear when you are in the industry, but for consumers it can get a bit hairy. I'm hardly even interested any more. I know I pay about R170 for a 300MB a month deal on top of my normal phone contract. But I used to have a 3G modem years ago and I was paying a couple of hundred rand a month for 2GB a month. And 3G modem deals have come down dramatically in price in recent years.

First prize I think for any service provider would be to just provide the following deals:
A: BIS style data deal for phones, modems, tablets (no price difference for any particular device)
B: Per GB 3G data deals in 500mb increments for phones, modems, tablets (all the same affordable per mb base price for all devices)

If in fact Vodacom's deals are like that (option B at least) then awesome! You are providing fantastic deals that any reasonable consumer would have a problem with.

I'm just saying the first prize will go to the SP that makes it's 3G data deals consistent over all devices and thus more intuitive. Anything else just looks like more smoke and mirrors to me.

But why stop there? if I knew that I can use the same deal on my phone, my tablet and a 3G modem and I knew I could use that data from any one of my devices I may be using at any given time or even the same time then I would sign up even if it was more expensive! But no. I have to get a cheap deal for my modem, and then two expensive deals for my tablet and phone. So three separate 3G deals at different per MB prices! Unbearable! The inconvenience is unbearable.

Make it more convenient for me and make 1MB 3G data = 1MB 3G data no matter the device and I will buy. Currently the products available seems to be based on the premise that there are invisible wires following us around in the air, but no - There are no wires. And the damned user just wants to use google to searc, or check mail or something - Not worry about which fictional little invisible wire the data is coming over.

A service should be convenient for the user, not the service provider!
 
Just recently came back from Belgrade, Serbia:

For 300 Dinars pre-paid (about R28) you get:
300 minutes talk time and 50MB of high speed data (800KB/s) - when you reach your 'cap', you're moved to lower speed uncapped internet (100KB/S) which is good enough for browsing, facebooking and emails.

1GB high speed internet will cost you 800 Dinar (R73) and 2GB, 1300 Dinar (R120).

http://www.telenor.rs/sr/Privatni-korisnici/Internet/Internet-tarifni-dodaci/

Conversion
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=300&From=RSD&To=ZAR

You know whats even more funny, the locals think that the prices are really expensive compared to their neighbours ...
 
Shameel Joosub is off to a great start!!!
If I had the money I would run an ad campaign showing everyone what really happening as most users out there not really as informed as most of us are.
Now, to go play the lotto...
 
“The need for simplicity is coming through strongly from customers,” said Joosub. “One thing which we will do is to simplify the tariffs a lot more”.

Wow - it only took them about 10 years to get that message - this is what happens when you are disconnected from the reality of your customers.

Raymond Ackerman used to visit his stores without announcing who he is to see what the true customer experience is and then would go back to Head Office and start holding the correct people accountable (as an aside, now that he has effectively retired and the Senior PnP execs have retreated into the Head Offices, you can see how the quality and service has slipped (case in point, 'flagship' shore at Canal Walk)

I am sure that Mr Joosub, contrary to our emotional outbursts, is perfectly competent at most of his job - he has simply worked for Vodacom for so long that he believes the internal lies that all senior management get told and has not been out there to experience the real world from his customer's point of view.
 
kingrob said:
Vodafone offers unlimited deals in the UK.... why can't it be done here?

I mean, it's the same company, isn't it?

But if Joosub says it can't be done here, then I must conclude that he is the biggest moron I've ever seen in a CEO chair. Just an empty suit, counting the days till retirement.

I really hope he proves me wrong.
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I'm in the UK on business at the moment and I got a SIM for my cell with 300 minutes talk time, 3000 smses, and unlimited data (sure there is some fair use restriction but its probably high) for 15 pounds valid for one month. My SA vodacom contract is more than twice the price with only 100 minutes, 200 smses, and 250mb data. My maths obviously isn't very good because Vodacom doesn't seem cheaper, better investigate some adult maths classes.
 
What bull. I just got back from Wales in the UK yesterday. I was also there in January this year. Both trips I purchased a prepaid bundle from the 3 network - you get

1. UNLIMITED "all you can eat" data at high speeds (wow)
2. 300 minutes air time
3. 3000 text messages

the above package is valid for 30 days

and this package cost 15 pounds.....

try beat that Vodacom....bunch of losers. I estimate I used around 30 GB of mobile data. I wonder how many thousands of rands that would have cost me from Vodacom for mobile data in this country. I don't feel like doing the math, but maybe R 10k ?
 
AfricanTech said:
Wow - it only took them about 10 years to get that message - this is what happens when you are disconnected from the reality of your customers.
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Selective hearing - this little article makes me think they are losing out to Cell C and have eventually decided to do something.
 
surfs-up said:
What bull. I just got back from Wales in the UK yesterday. I was also there in January this year. Both trips I purchased a prepaid bundle from the 3 network - you get

1. UNLIMITED "all you can eat" data at high speeds (wow)
2. 300 minutes air time
3. 3000 text messages

the above package is valid for 30 days

and this package cost 15 pounds.....

try beat that Vodacom....bunch of losers. I estimate I used around 30 GB of mobile data. I wonder how many thousands of rands that would have cost me from Vodacom for mobile data in this country. I don't feel like doing the math, but maybe R 10k ?
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UK <> Europe! Ask anyone on the mainland hehehe
 
Beri said:
MyBb can take this tread. Go to the chop and ask him to respond to it. Now that would be a great article.....
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If Akkie who claims to be such a techno geek had realised what was said and responded appropriately we would have had the answer already.
 
The Trutherizer said:
I'm just saying the first prize will go to the SP that makes it's 3G data deals consistent over all devices and thus more intuitive. Anything else just looks like more smoke and mirrors to me.
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Um, Cell C have pretty much done that - not all the way there, but damn close. One call rate, one OOB rate.
 
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