Pre Paid Data Bundles [PPDBs]

Should this thread be closed (locked)?

  • Yes, put it out of its misery

    Votes: 7 41.2%

  • No, I don't like euthanasia, leave it to die painfully & alone

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • I'm confused, maybe all of the above

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
ic said:
I recommend the Huawei E220, which is a tiny USB modem that does HSDPA [up to 3.6Mbits/s] & vanilla-3G & EDGE & GPRS, which means that when Vodacom & MTN upgrade from 1.8Mbits/s HSDPA to 3.6Mbits/s HSDPA, you would have a modem that works at the higher speed. There is one possible downside to the E220, the Huawei s/w doesn't appear to be geared towards ICS, and even doing a switch user in XP causes a disconnect, but the [post=219998]E220 does work in Linux[/post] without any special drivers, and the connection can obviously be shared using Linux as well...
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Thanks for your advice IC, as good as ever;) Got a E220 today, slotted in my phone's pay-as-u-go sim card and had installation done in 10 minutes.

What the shops don't tell you is that you have to phone 082155 to have your phone activated for data (Vodago). Until you do, nothing happens.
 
On the 3G/HSDPA adapter for your laptop: I have the MTN F@astlink E620 card, on a MTN Mycall100 at R50pm. It works well with MTN, Vodacom, VirginMobile (the latter a bit tricky to setup). You may be able to get the USB Huawei E220 on the same deal...
 
OK-so has VC got ppdb

Yes I know there is a sticky on this but it is 47 pages and has gone off topic.
I have been with MTN for a long time now and in my area (Muizenburg to Simons Town) they only have GPRS. VC has 3G here, that is why I want to migrate.
Went to VC4U at Longbeach mall yesterday to enquire and got blank stares from them.
Wotsup
 
marco said:
Yes I know there is a sticky on this but it is 47 pages and has gone off topic.
I have been with MTN for a long time now and in my area (Muizenburg to Simons Town) they only have GPRS. VC has 3G here, that is why I want to migrate.
Went to VC4U at Longbeach mall yesterday to enquire and got blank stares from them.
Wotsup
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Marco,

Not sure if this may help while you wait for PPDB's. You can sign up for a 4U Zero "Contract" which is a 24 month "Contract with 0 monthly cost associated and no bundled airtime or data or anything fancy (no phone either). You can then choose what size data bundle you want to "Bolt on" to the package and if you exhaust that bundle for any particular month, you can buy an ad-hoc bundle to last you the rest of the month. I cannot recall the intricacies of carrying over unused data from one month to the next. To the best of my knowledge, you can do the same thing with any other contract if you intend moving an existing voice contract from MTN - V3g should be able to confirm this.

Hope this info is still correct at time of going to press! ;)
 
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