Rain stops selling standalone uncapped 4G packages

[Goosfrabba]

Marketing team made a huge mistake.

Gob Bluth, the new marketing manager

 

[shinji]

Big win for Telkom then.
I use Telkom's Off-peak LTE offering for R259 - quite decent and consistent speeds. All super well managed.
Have used Rain's offering but it was a mess...

 

[Polymathic]

Big win for Telkom then.
I use Telkom's Off-peak LTE offering for R259 - quite decent and consistent speeds. All super well managed.
Have used Rain's offering but it was a mess...

That's probably going to be discontinued too.

 

[shinji]

That's probably going to be discontinued too.

Yeah... hope not too soon though.
Fibre sucks in my town and there isn't 5G...

 

[cavedog]

Big win for Telkom then.
I use Telkom's Off-peak LTE offering for R259 - quite decent and consistent speeds. All super well managed.
Have used Rain's offering but it was a mess...

It's not quite the same. Rain was 19 hours uncapped. Telkom is 7 hours between midnight and 7am and it's 250GB and it's speed capped.

 

[shinji]

It's not quite the same. Rain was 19 hours uncapped. Telkom is 7 hours between midnight and 7am and it's 250GB and it's speed capped.

Telkom is off between 7pm and midnight (using the connection now), uncapped from 00:00 till 19:00.
250GB cap at 10Mbps, then 50Gb at 4Mbps and uncapped at 2Mbps for rest of month.

Rain's best speeds in my area hit 1.4Mbps - with Telkom I get 9.8Mbps on average.
Not too heavy on downloads so data use averages at about 200Gb per month, which makes this option golden.

 

[jbroo]

What if you live in a non 5G area but do have 4G coverage? Are these people now not allowed to join Rain?

No, you sign up and pay for 5G but get 4G service at the same price and you throw the phone sims away. I suspect this is the case now that their 5G had 4G fallback and they only sell a "one size fits all" bundle.

 

[LandyMan]

No, you sign up and pay for 5G but get 4G service at the same price and you throw the phone sims away. I suspect this is the case now that their 5G had 4G fallback and they only sell a "one size fits all" bundle.

And therein lies the problem. I only want the phone SIMS ... Dual SIM phones rock these "uncapped" solutions

 

[Prawn Hub]

No, you sign up and pay for 5G but get 4G service at the same price and you throw the phone sims away. I suspect this is the case now that their 5G had 4G fallback and they only sell a "one size fits all" bundle.

Jbroo its very sad that they resorted to such an unfriendly customer experience.

 

[EtienneK1977]

Ha Ha Ha.
Uncapped xyGB data... What's the point?

 

[Trix]

Anyone had experience with following - I’m thinking of switching from rain off peak to mtn.