South African mobile data prices compared

[Kevin Lancaster]

South African mobile data prices compared

We compare the most affordable data packages from Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, and Telkom.

 

[Johnatan56]

Links to each of the offerings on the respective cellular provider's site?

 

[koeksGHT]

Prepaid pricing?

 

[entrepr]

Telkom claims to offer me 1GB/month of data but their local roaming data is only 100Mb per month and I seem to be roaming >1/2 the time

 

[NeonNinja]

R299 for 10GB on MTN? Where?

 

[NeonNinja]

Prepaid pricing?

Yes.

 

[koeksGHT]

Yes.

No. I pay R149 for 1gb on Vodacom.

 

[Lupus]

These seem to be for data only packages, cause I pay R99 for 1gb on TM.

 

[cozinsky]

No. I pay R149 for 1gb on Vodacom.

You are paying too much. I pay R75 a gig (prepaid) by buying it in advance for a year.

 

[bwana]

These seem to be for data only packages, cause I pay R99 for 1gb on TM.

It took me a while to track it down but TMs R59 for 1GB seems to be their weekend "onceoff" deal.

 

[Swa]

LOL @ Vodacom. For R999 I get 200GB on Cell C.

 

[FNfal]

No. I pay R149 for 1gb on Vodacom.

Same .
Where do these prices come from ?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Same .
Where do these prices come from ?

The internet. It does not lie!!!

I think those are contract only sim prices. You have to sign a 2 year contract, and it's a data only sim.

 

[FlashSA]

The article is poorly written. Starts talking about Freeme and data for smartphones, then shows a table of sim-only, data-only contracts. Unless you have a dual sim phone, threse packages are for using in a dongle/mifi/router only as they are not voice enabled.

 

[supersunbird]

The article is poorly written. Starts talking about Freeme and data for smartphones, then shows a table of sim-only, data-only contacts. Unless you have a dual sim phone, threse packages are for using in a dongle/mifi/router only as they are not voice enabled.

+∞

 

[Lament]

Yip, i pay R150 for 1GB at CellC. Dont know where this R69 comes from.

 

[koeksGHT]

You are paying too much. I pay R75 a gig (prepaid) by buying it in advance for a year.

FNB and *111# both R149 for 1Gb on prepaid.. which consumers gets shafted most with price? The one not getting shafted by their contracts instead.

 

[bwana]

The article is poorly written. Starts talking about Freeme and data for smartphones, then shows a table of sim-only, data-only contracts. Unless you have a dual sim phone, threse packages are for using in a dongle/mifi/router only as they are not voice enabled.

The majority of the TM prices shown are available as PAYG add-on's in one form or another

 

[FlashSA]

The majority of the TM prices shown are available as PAYG add-on's in one form or another

Yes, you are correct. The other 3 networks are most definitely data-sim-only pricing on a contract

 

[bwana]

Yes, you are correct. The other 3 networks are most definitely data-sim-only pricing on a contract

I still can't find some of the TM ones. I suspect the 5gb package might be a typo since they do offer a 3gb for the same price. Links to, or even just indications of, which packages these are would have been helpful.