R10/GB is not bad. But I would prefer a 25GB bundle for R99 or something. I can't justify the 300GB account yet. There's something missing in between.
Fat pipe lite then. Think it is R89 for 25gb. Plus you could get bolt on and get uncapped after 6pm and weekends all day.
You should check these out:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/fat-pipe-lite
and then
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/uncapped-bolton
Buy the 25GB Fatpipe Lite first, then buy the bolt on.
I'm moving into a new apartment in November and I think Vox is winning my business with its offering and also cvanwie's really impressive contributions. I love a company that isn't afraid to engage with its customers, especially in the place where it's likely to find the most demanding and well informed subset of its customer base.
My main consumption will be daytime browsing and evening/weekend live TV streaming so I'm pretty sure that I'll be going for Fatpipe Lite plus the bolt-on and at the prices that Vox charge it is amazing value (maybe I shouldn't be telling them that) but I do agree with X-Gamer that, even for my use, there is something missing; not essential but it would be really nice to have.
I'm pretty sure that I'll exceed my 25GB cap most months so I'm budgeting maybe R200 a month for extra OOB weekday data at R10 per GB but it would be really great if there was some sort of pre-purchasable PAYG data bundles that could be added to a Fatpipe Lite account as a slightly more cost effective way to get extra data when the 25GB limit is exhausted and not have to go through the hassle of buying a separate Fatpipe (heavy) account.
Possible pre-purchased data and prices might be as follows...
25GB of extra data for R150 (R6.00/GB)
50GB of extra data for R250 (R5.00/GB) compared to R170 per month (R3.40/GB) for a Fatpipe 50GB account
75GB of extra data for R300 (R4.00/GB) compared to R252 per month (R3.36/GB) for a Fatpipe 75GB account
100GB of extra data for R350 (R3.50/GB) compared to R328 per month (R3.28/GB) for a Fatpipe 100GB account
This would give me a lot more flexibility to manage costs if/when I exceeded the basic 25GB weekday allowance because rather than paying per GB I could make a judgement about how much extra I needed and buy a top-up up front. Obviously if an evening/weekend unlimited bolt-on was active then no data would be deducted from any top-up data bundle for usage during hours when the unlimited bolt-on was active so any top-up data purchased would be entirely for weekday usage.
The above might even boost revenue a bit for Vox if people who might otherwise have signed up for a separate full Fatpipe account (50GB/75GB/100GB or whatever) decided that they were willing to pay a bit more per GB to boost the allowance on their Fatpipe Lite account by buying these pre-paid data topups rather than having a a second non-lite Fatpipe account and switching between them. It would also probably reduce load on Vox's systems slightly by reducing the number of people switching their lines between accounts. Finally, pre-purchasing data like this gives slightly better credit control and reduces bad-debt risk compared to charging per GB for OOB data as it is consumed (which I assume is done by counting OOB data usage during the month and adding the charges to the bill at the end of the monthly billing cycle).
I'd even be willing to have the speed of my pre-purchased data top-ups capped at 10Mbps (in the same way as the unlimited evening & weekend top-up is currently speed limited) if it helped Vox protect its network sufficiently to allow this to happen but I suspect that others here might disagree with me on that one. Ideally any data top-ups purchased would allow unused data to roll forward but again I personally would be prepared to see some restriction on that if it helped Vox justify the scheme, maybe adopting Telkom Mobile PAYG data roll-over rules, i.e. unused data rolls over to the end of the month following purchase although something more generous would be nice.
- Julian
