Red Vodacom branding appears

viven said:
Enough to build their 21mbps network! :)

Back on topic, when I was at Vodacom, they had a whole segment during induction about how the colour is so important to the brand... Big change indeed.
I'm sure their advertising campaign for this will cost mega bucks...
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You mean 42mbps network?
 
Vodafone is not that wonderful, let me tell you!

Hi guys, a while back I went to Ireland and after MTN promised me that all was in order and that the moment I set foot in Ireland, my cellphone will roam, I was ready to go. Big surprise, my MTN cellphone didn't roam! Hahaha - I guess that wasn't a surprise. But anyway, I went to a Vodafone store in Dublin - they were rude and disgusting. And secondly, a prepaid Vodafone sim cost me R175.00 (and they didn't accept credit card - had to go draw some euros at the atm), where it would've cost me R1 here in good old SA. Secondly, Vodafone couldn't offer me BIS on prepaid - it simply doesn't exist!!!, I had to have a contract, where good old Vodacom would've offered it to me for about R60. I can't remember the exact amount, but no matter what bundle you use, or what you do, 1MB of data in Ireland was something rediculous like R15. And the sim wouldn't activate immediately, I had to phone their rude callcenter (with their horrible Irish accents!).

Hope and pray that Vodacom will remain Vodacom, 'cause the grass isn't so lusciously green on the other side!
 
When the ANC couldn't improve the situation of the suffering, they changed street names.

How much could the price of data bundles be dropped by saving on this exercise?
 
This just shows me how dumb vodacom is in fact.

Changing a logo and color of a well established and known brand is the WORST thing you can do...

Imagine Coca Cola changing their logo or color
 
Keeper said:
This just shows me how dumb vodacom is in fact.

Changing a logo and color of a well established and known brand is the WORST thing you can do...

Imagine Coca Cola changing their logo or color
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For all intents and purposes Vodacom is Vodafone S.A., Probably the only reason they are not changing the name too is because it so closely resembles Vodafone, This is not a big brand changing their logo, this is a corporate takeover being completed by removing the brand of the now defunct (Vodacom) brand and replacing it with the new owner (Vodafone) brand.
 
Keeper said:
This just shows me how dumb vodacom is in fact.

Changing a logo and color of a well established and known brand is the WORST thing you can do...

Imagine Coca Cola changing their logo or color
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Its a tough call.
2nd best brand in SA vs 5th best in the world?

Vodacom currently owns the colour blue in SA, dangerous to go red. But Vodacom has always been in the forefront of marketing strategy in SA (even if most of you don't think so) so I think they've done their homework.
 
Superhero said:
Hi guys, a while back I went to Ireland and after MTN promised me that all was in order and that the moment I set foot in Ireland, my cellphone will roam, I was ready to go. Big surprise, my MTN cellphone didn't roam! Hahaha - I guess that wasn't a surprise. But anyway, I went to a Vodafone store in Dublin - they were rude and disgusting. And secondly, a prepaid Vodafone sim cost me R175.00 (and they didn't accept credit card - had to go draw some euros at the atm), where it would've cost me R1 here in good old SA. Secondly, Vodafone couldn't offer me BIS on prepaid - it simply doesn't exist!!!, I had to have a contract, where good old Vodacom would've offered it to me for about R60. I can't remember the exact amount, but no matter what bundle you use, or what you do, 1MB of data in Ireland was something rediculous like R15. And the sim wouldn't activate immediately, I had to phone their rude callcenter (with their horrible Irish accents!).

Hope and pray that Vodacom will remain Vodacom, 'cause the grass isn't so lusciously green on the other side!
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I take offense. And you accent is...?
 
and even the vodashops will become vodacom shop because its now illegal to break up the word vodacom
even vodafone is thinking of changing its name to vodacom because its not only about fones anymore
 
I've noticed the Vodacom branding on the Ponte Tower in Johannesburg has been red for several weeks now. I'm not sure I like it, the blue was a better fit with the skyline. Not a big deal though.
 
francoisjvr said:
I've noticed the Vodacom branding on the Ponte Tower in Johannesburg has been red for several weeks now. I'm not sure I like it, the blue was a better fit with the skyline. Not a big deal though.
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Not the first time the Ponte has been graced by Red though. Coca Cola used to be on there many many moons ago.
 
If it will stop Vodacom from producing those terrible ads with those horrible mascots, I'm all for it. However, all that red on Game's cellphone page does look terrible. That whole page is telling me to STOP! DON'T BUY! The pink makes it look twice as bad. :sick:

Imo, Cell C has the best branding atm. It looks pro.

Wish MTN would shrivel and die, though, their "World class internet" ads and sickening yellow are the pits. :sick:
 
BBSA said:
The Vodashop in Fourways Mall is now branded as a Vodacom Shop

Photo: http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=22385&cat=500
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Aside from the branding (which isn't too bad imo), just having the word shop up there looks so stupid..

Can you imagine the confusion and anarchy it would create if they didn't explicitly let us know it's a shop??!
Son: Look look! A Vodacom store! Lets go in and buy something!
Dad: Now now son, settle down. It may look like a store to your untrained eyes, but you see from the deliberate lack of the word 'shop', we can't be sure they'll actually sell us anything... For all we know it's just a room with cellphones that just happens to be below an advertising board for Vodacom..
Son: Jeepers dad, you're right! I'm so stupid! Lets go home and surf the net at R2/meg at 1mbps.
/Son and dad walk past Edgars SHOP, Woolworths SHOP and Pick 'n Pay SHOP on their way out.
/roll credits

(Yes I'm bored)
 
Just an FYI...

Blue and Green in SA is actually used by Telkom primarily... With Telkom removing their interest in Vodacom and Vodafone taking over control it only makes sense to change the logo and branding.

Sure putting shop in a shop window is stupid but i imagine it was done for a reason, i cannot see a VP of Marketing approving a campaign like that without reason, maybe there will be different ones for customer care, repairs etc..

Anyway i have been with VC for over 11 years now and havent had a single hassle and i have 3 contract and 1 data line... Sure the prices could be a lot better but hey we live in SA what do you epxect.

Cell C have rebanrded themselves and we have all told Trevor what we want, their data plans are epic but i have alot of friends who say they have been double billed, lines cut etc for no reason. They dropped the price but kept the ****ty service.. Also they have no inclenation of what a smartphone is or how to run something like an iPhone through a seperate APN.

Will take some time to get used to the new red logo but having the backing of a global brand can only improve the service offering in future...
 
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