price per meg

[Snowolf]

I threw this question into the vodacom forum, think maybe it needs to be in here too:
this may sound like a stupid question but what do the service providers achieve by charging diferent rates, R2 out of bundle. R.80c for one contract and R.60 c for another ?
why not just charge one fee ? what are you guys loosing out on ?
agreed, if the people take out a 1 gig contract they should get their data cards for free but why kill the small fish who use up only 20 meg or so ???

this will kill a lot of problems and make roll over much more realistic.
even cell-c is getting into it, surely between 3 service providers there should be some kind of competition ?
I think we all would be more than happy to have one minimal amount with out a stupid cap looming over us ****exceed this and we will hit you with the full fee***
I would not feel guilty to spend an extra R50-R100 if there was no R2 out of package, extra money in the service providers pockets.

 

[MTNBroadband]

You may want to look specifically at MTN's 1Gig bolt on bundle as well as MTN's out-of-bundle rate as I believe MTN is actually the most competitive on the market!

When looking at competition please look at exactly what service MTN is offering as we clearly do have areas of competitive advantage (pricing, coverage, handset convergence and seamless experience): We have taken mobile data pricing lower than any other GSM network in the world. We have a national network of over 1 million square kilometres of which 100% is GPRS enabled. We have seamless integration with EDGE and (soon) 3G. All this is fully mobile so your handset can double up as a modem and can be used across the country.

This is a very powerful contribution to data and broadband uptake in South Africa.

 

[Snowolf]

I must admit I do play both sides of the fence, I have contracts with both MTN and vodacom, the service I recieve from both parties is brilliant but there is still room for improvement.
As I stated on the vodacom forum the more competative we can make GPRS the more users will use it and the service providers will get pay off on their investments. right now its only the top 2 % using data.