Vodacom undercuts Cell C on 2GB broadband pricing

Do you welcome this new 2GB + 2GB promotion for R149 from Vodacom?

  • Yes

    Votes: 161 66.8%

  • No

    Votes: 80 33.2%
  • Total voters
    241
kevinswan007 said:
from the vodacom website:
What Is It?
Effective 1 May this promotion offers 2 gigabyte of data per month for 12 months, plus another 2 gigabyte free data each month on Night Owl to use from midnight to 5am only at R149 per month including VAT on a Broadband Standard, 12-month data Contract or 12-month data Top Up Contract.

The offer includes:

7.2 Mbps Modem

Geek support, including a free voucher for 2 hours technical assistance to help you get started

FREE Premium Email with 5 GB storage capacity and 5 aliases



What Are The Benefits?
More value for your money

2GB of Data with carry-over

FREE Night Owl with 2GB more of FREE data to use between midnight and 5am

FREE Premium Email



How Do I Get It?
This ‘Red is Mofaya’ data promotion will be available from 1 May 2011 to 31 July 2011.

Simply visit your nearest participating Vodacom Service Provider to sign up for a 12-month Data contract or Top Up Data contract.

For more information, call 082 111, FREE from a Vodacom cellphone.

If you are a Top Up customer, you can buy Data Bundles from your cellphone using Prepaid airtime.



How Much Does It Cost?
Get the Broadband Standard 12-month contract for only R149 per month.

The in-bundle rate for the 2GB Bundle will cost only 7c per MB and you will pay an out-of-bundle rate of R1,20 per MB. Normal carry-over rules apply on the 2GB. Carry-over is not applicable for the 2GB Night Owl bundle.

Terms and conditions apply.
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and now: http://www.vodacom.co.za/vodacom/se...cted=7_a_Pro_3_Red_1319&ciFormat=default&ht=t

quickly moved from 12 to 24 months.... looks like VC was thinking with their pants down
 
Cost Conscious said:
Whoaah Neddy - so turns out Vodacom is suckering the customers in for 2 years and only offering the low price for the 1st year!!!

Well Vodacom is perfectly able to do this, but is there sufficient prominence given to the fact that the lower price is only for the first 12 months?

Many My BB members have been swearing blind the offer is for 12 months only. Perhaps everyone meant the low prices were only valid for 50% of the contract term.

Why would anyone go for this offer and lock themselves into 1 year at R149 and 1 year at R349? Well I'm sure there will be some takers!

For me this means that Cell C's 2Gig, SIM only deal - remains market leader in value for money. And they still beat the pants off of Vodacom for speed in my house. :p
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Well no surprise here, it is Vodacom in full force.
 
A subtle hint... just offer a 12 month contract then.

jannievanzyl said:
A subtle hint. ;)
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Or am I to understand we are being instructed to enter into a 24 month contract and cancel at month 13? Is this ethical?
 
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rph72 said:
And then subtly change the T&C's after a few months?
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not that im defending VC, but the Ts and Cs you signed for applies for your contract i think. that means, if they change them, the new rules do not apply to you(unless you want them to of course). in any event, if i'm wrong about the above, i suspect VC will experience plenty of court cases.
 
jannievanzyl said:
From the web site above:


A subtle hint. ;)
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so 12mnths at R149 and one month at R349 without Night Owl and no OOB management and R200 initial fee? (as things stand today.... nobody knows what will apply on 1May)
 
So that equates to R2337.00 for 13 months... so Cell C is still cheaper then over the same 13 month period.

Vodacom = R179.00 for 13 months

If the contact is cancelled then, does the modem go back to Vodacom, or can it be kept?

Bundu said:
so 12mnths at R149 and one month at R349 without Night Owl and no OOB management and R200 initial fee? (as things stand today.... nobody knows what will apply on 1May)
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The.devil.is.in.the.details.

The devil is red. Vodacom is red.
 
kilobitsperyear said:
If the contact is cancelled then, does the modem go back to Vodacom, or can it be kept?
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the answer to that question is at this stage irrelevant, as that detail will probably also change in a weeks time... it is just blatantly obvious that VC sucked this deal out of their thumbs without proper thought and is now back pedalling after seeing the mostly positive response to the initial offer, as might I say, published on their website and facebook - advertising standards authority, are you watching?
 
Did RPM have all the facts at the time the article was flighted - or has this little insignificant detail subsequently crept out of the woodwork?

I second the motion that the poll be deemed null and void since members were voting on incomplete (hidden) information.

@Jannie VZ, so apparently customers can cancel after month 13, but then why bother with his nonsense?

Presumably terminating early (for cause or what?) only requires that you take your ID book and a pair of dancing shoes and sing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika as loud as you can, while tap dancing, in your nearest Vodacom shop...

If they like your rendition, they let you cancel! Alternatively, you will be allowed to sing the first two verses of the British National Anthem for red reasons.
 
Bundu said:
the answer to that question is at this stage irrelevant, as that detail will probably also change in a weeks time... it is just blatantly obvious that VC sucked this deal out of their thumbs without proper thought and is now back pedalling after seeing the mostly positive response to the initial offer, as might I say, published on their website and facebook - advertising standards authority, are you watching?
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ASA is owned by Vodacon, didn't you know? :wtf:
 
Not available on:

* Prepaid
* Top Up
* Migrations to Broadband Standard MyGig 2 24-month Data Contract
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Am I to understand that Top Up doesn't apply to this contract anymore? So it's OOB prices only?
 
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