Using roaming, should I take vaseline along?

[Necuno]

I thought the whole Idea for vodacom painting themselves red was to include cost savings on roaming. Eish looking at the rates it looked like R6-R23 p/m, seriously?

Guess I'd be getting a temp sim in the states rather...

 

[froot]

You have two choices... vaseline, or getting a sim over there

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Ja, just get a SIM over there.

Otherwise the OOB shark will nibble at your appendages...

Or the disgusting little flea-infected bag of a meerkat will show up at your house for a shafting at your expense...


Your choice.

 

[Necuno]

Lol. I Guess '98 will never arrive; Cheap calls, fast internet.

 

[VodacomData]

I thought the whole Idea for vodacom painting themselves red was to include cost savings on roaming. Eish looking at the rates it looked like R6-R23 p/m, seriously?

Guess I'd be getting a temp sim in the states rather...

It would be best to get a prepaid SIM in the country you will be visiting , if not you could also manually log on to a Vodafone Partner network as they charge R17.50 Mb instead of a maximum of R128.00 Mb

 

[_Jakes_]

You won't have to take any along with you but be sure to get some there, cause you'll need it when you come back.

 

[Jab]

If you're on a contract and going to a country with a vodafone afilliated network, look at the Vodafone Passport option.

Vodafone Passport enables you to make calls, at your South African call rate* in addition to paying a once-off connection fee of R17.50 per call. This connection fee does not apply if you are roaming on another Vodacom network in Africa(Vodacom Mozambique, Lesotho, Tanzania or Congo).

Make and receive longer voice calls at a lower rate

Send and receive SMSs (at the Vodafone World Zone rate of R2.75 per SMS sent).

Use data to access the Internet, email and your company network (Data roaming is currently only available to Vodacom Contract customers. Vodafone World Zone rates for data roaming will apply)

 

[abandonallhope]

As everybody else said, prepare to sell everything you own to cover the cost of roaming data. People roaming on MTN in Australia should be especially careful, they charge a cool R160/mb.

Also VodacomData guy, could you explain these charges ? I honestly cannot see how this is anything but daylight extortion somewhere in the supply chain.

What are they using to transfer this data ? at R160 per measly megabyte, or R160 000 per gigabyte, I would at the very least expect them to send it into another dimension through a parrallel universe via quantum space continuum fibre cable.

I can transfer data overseas via my ADSL line at R13 per GB ?

 

[ChilliGirl]

you could also manually log on to a Vodafone Partner network as they charge R17.50 Mb instead of a maximum of R128.00 Mb

:wtf:

 

[abandonallhope]

http://www.mtn.co.za/Travel/TravellingFromSA/Pages/RoamingTarrifs.aspx

Check that, but before you do please sit down.

I suppose that MTN/VC/Whoever must have some agreement in place with the network overseas that the phone is going to use, but where does this stupendous cost come into the equasion, surely in this day and age it is a technical triviality ?

 

[Amy1234]

In 2010 I decided to use the roaming option when visiting family in Los Angeles... mistake!! I didn't use the phone that much and was charged around R6000 for the pleasure of using the phone. Don't do it!

 

[Necuno]

It would be best to get a prepaid SIM in the country you will be visiting , if not you could also manually log on to a Vodafone Partner network as they charge R17.50 Mb instead of a maximum of R128.00 Mb

Thanks VD.

 

[ngwenyas]

Ja, just get a SIM over there.

Otherwise the OOB shark will nibble at your appendages...

Or the disgusting little flea-infected bag of a meerkat will show up at your house for a shafting at your expense...


Your choice.

You guys are funny