Rain increases prices for new subscribers

[Jan]

Rain price hikes for new customers

Mobile network operator Rain has quietly increased the base price of its RainOne packages for new customers.

The adjustment coincides with the launch of its new 5G smart router — dubbed the101 — which will ship as a free-to-use device with new RainOne orders.

 

[pouroverguy]

Wish I could get it on my old plan. I'm extremely happy with the 5G speeds (up to 400mbps), and use about 2TB a month with the premium plan. But the WiFi range is absolutely disgraceful - I've tried to different Rain routers and in my lounge, my phone and PC still regularly loses signal - this is a distance of maybe 10m. No settings changes and channel /band changes have improved it.

 

[lotus123]

I was very happy with the 4G basic service - very fast, and there were workarounds for the "downtime" between 6 and 11. And also very inexpensive.

This pricing puts them right among the fibre products, and I don't think they can't win on performance there (sustained throughput and latency). They could end up like DSTV - losing customers by pushing expensive products at a market that has more choices than ever.

 

[G.A.S]

I lost all use for RAIN when they stopped offering the R50/GB plan (which was convenient to keep a SIM active until uncapped was needed due to fibre downtime) :-/ MTN (specifically Afrihost) seems so much more useful now...

 

[BCR]

Opting for the 100Mbps package will add R400 to the base price, working out to R995 instead of the previous R959.

R36, on my calculator .... or using fingers !

 

[Swa]

Everyone is just increasing prices. Are these services not supposed to get cheaper?

 

[zulucat]

Everyone is just increasing prices. Are these services not supposed to get cheaper?

Not bidding for service providers, but operating a business in SA is getting very expensive. The load shedding which forces service providers to consider expensive solar options or burn fuel, the crime which forces service providers to hire additional security to secure assets, the high fuel prices which have a ripple effect on almost everything, the inadequate infrastructure, the ever increasing rates and taxes… it’s a lot.

 

[marius.fourie]

Rain has the worst website possible. No information about packages. By example.
Is is fixed position or can I take it with me?
Does 5G drop to 4G if 5G coverage falls away (which happens more than regularly).
That is what the sort of thing I expect to learn from their website, not the rubbish about colors which I do not care a **** about.

 

[UB40]

Starlink for the win

 

[Swa]

Not bidding for service providers, but operating a business in SA is getting very expensive. The load shedding which forces service providers to consider expensive solar options or burn fuel, the crime which forces service providers to hire additional security to secure assets, the high fuel prices which have a ripple effect on almost everything, the inadequate infrastructure, the ever increasing rates and taxes… it’s a lot.

Big Eskom electricity price mistake

Eskom is basing its very large price increases on the rising cost of producing electricity, but ignores the corruption, mismanagement, and inefficiencies behind these higher costs.

mybroadband.co.za

Eskom is basing its substantial price increases on the rising cost of producing electricity, but the notion of cost-reflective tariffs is an economic fallacy.

Let me put it like this, in any competitive environment products are priced according to what consumers can and are willing to pay. Service providers have to adjust their input costs to be profitable and NOT the other way around. They don't care about my bottom line so neither should I care about theirs. It's only because of our monopolistic environment they can do it.