Rain Black Friday deals unveiled, including unlimited 4G for R299

[Jamie McKane]

Rain Black Friday deals unveiled, including unlimited 4G for R299

Rain has unveiled two Black Friday deals with price cuts on its “unlimited 4G for phones” and “unlimited home 5G standard” products.

As part of this promotion, the network has reduced the price of its “unlimited 4G for phones” from the usual R379 per month to R299 per month.

 

[Goosfrabba]

So it will work even less due to even more congestion...if that is possible.

 

[Hackson]

Lol wow. Rain are literally selling data "voetstoets".

 

[JimM]

If they could only repair their infrastructure!

 

[microsoftword]

Horrible service and they have the audacity to sell an even worse product for black friday?

 

[backstreetboy]

Horrible service and they have the audacity to sell an even worse product for black friday?

They're forcing you to take it?

 

[telkomiskaI<]

false advertising, should be called UNLIMITED 1G

 

[username and 23 others]

Potential Rain customers should be cautious when considering handing over hard earned cash to the service provider:

In the last month or so the following articles were published:
Rain faces backlash over slow speeds and poor support
South African ISPs ranked on value, network quality, and support
Rain to remove misleading download speed claims
The South African mobile operator with the happiest customers revealed
The best and worst mobile networks in South Africa
Rain's fall from grace

 

[eg2505]

for barely usable service? nope got better things to spend money on.

 

[NeonNinja]

They're forcing you to take it?

It's affection their network, credibility and reputation.

 

[backstreetboy]

It's affection their network, credibility and reputation.

Lol people downloading torrents on their phone?

 

[NeonNinja]

Lol people downloading torrents on their phone?

Huh?

 

[skusku]

If you use a vpn do you still stream at only 360p?

 

[stepper]

I would like to think the rain 4G uncapped is throttled to less than 2Mbps as they are too lazy or they simply can't distinguish which protocol is being used.

From my experience, the 24/7 package (R479) was unusable for anything but after downgrading to 19hr package(R250) I was getting speeds in excess of 25Mbps

As per youtube speed guide:

Video Resolution	Recommended sustained speed
4K	20 Mbps
HD 1080p	5 Mbps
HD 720p	2.5 Mbps
SD 480p	1.1 Mbps
SD 360p	0.7 Mbps

 

[McGuywer]

Does the "unlimited home 5G standard" and "unlimited home 5G premium" routers differ?
I think the standard is only the indoor unit and the premium has the outdoor unit?

 

[DailyTech]

no

 

[Ockie]

I wonder how it prevents you from using the hotspot feature on your phone. How does their network know you have turned your hotspot on on your phone?

 

[Peon]

No.

 

[TheRoDent]

I wonder how it prevents you from using the hotspot feature on your phone. How does their network know you have turned your hotspot on on your phone?

Probably just a limit on the maximum number of TCP connections allowed at any single time. A typical phone using a single app in the foreground will maybe use 5 TCP connections at a time. Use a VPN, bye bye restrictions.

SIM restrictions and profiles could also theoretically disable the "wifi hotspot" setting on your phone, but it's sketchy and might not work on all devices.

 

[Thugscub]

A bit of MTI.