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lcbxx said:
20c a meg, that's all I want. If they can do it if you buy a bundle, why not do it out of bundle and save people a lot of effort. You would rake the same profits as well and pay as a operator...
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I would like to differ a little bit from you there. If we were to look Just at the rather large MXIT userbase that only use a few megabytes a month, say < 10MB a month. For them the OOB rate of R2/50c doesn’t bother them at all and buying a bundle would either be a waste or they don’t even know what a ‘bundle’ is. If the price were to drop from R2 to say 20c, they won’t suddenly start using 10 times as much data. Their usage would stay more or less the same - Meaning a drop in revenue for the operator.

Unless I missed some core factor or something. The best of it all is, there is people out there that have a data bundles. But they don’t even come Close to fully utilizing it. Wasted bandwidth.
 
Jonny Two Shoes said:
bottom line though is that virgin need a new selling point. they are not doing to well afaik
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They will generate more income if they can manage a more stable GPRS\EDGE speed that will bring customers back to VM. The slower the speed, the lower the income. :eek:
Fact is that if they did not fix that problem during the past 10 months, when will it be fixed??? :confused:

I honestly hope they do, because i don't like data bundles.:eek:

:D :D
 
sky.akash said:
Me too:D
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Here goes:
Buy a virgin simcard at R32 ( Thats what i can sell them at to forumites )
The card comes loaded with R50 which will give you 100mb =
Effective price per mb : 32c

Only downside is, every simcard has to be activated and then u have to swap sims....
easy way to work is: activate 3 for example and then use one after the other...used ones go into your drawer for a rainy day or sell them to a friend for 5 bucks!
 
Mams said:
Here goes:
Buy a virgin simcard at R32 ( Thats what i can sell them at to forumites )
The card comes loaded with R50 which will give you 100mb =
Effective price per mb: 32c
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It's really sad to be so far away from the cities, missing out on bargains like these. In our onehorse town there is no VM prepaid vouchers or starterpacks, i buy airtime at ABSA.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
Mams said:
Here goes:
Buy a virgin simcard at R32 ( Thats what i can sell them at to forumites )
The card comes loaded with R50 which will give you 100mb =
Effective price per mb : 32c

Only downside is, every simcard has to be activated and then u have to swap sims....
easy way to work is: activate 3 for example and then use one after the other...used ones go into your drawer for a rainy day or sell them to a friend for 5 bucks!
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So that's where that 100,000 users come from. I'm about 40 bucks or so away from getting an extra R30 V Rewards so I might as well use it. But if I don't hear anything about a price reduction at the start of the month I am buying a bundle from Vodacom at 19c/MB. Most of it is with the R900 airtime I bought from PicknPay for R599 way back in September. Now if only I had bought 5 of them I would be getting my data for 13c/MB right now and maybe a free phone with all the "loyalty" points. Loyalty has it's limits and I think 2 months for Virgin to at least make a commitment is long enough.
 
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