Wireless broadband price comparison
Month-to-month and pre-paid services
Vodacom recently released their pre-paid data bundles making it possible for the first time for consumers to use their HSDPA offerings without signing a contract.
Month-to-month data bundles have been available from MTN and other operators for a long time already, forcing Vodacom to now play catch-up in this particular arena. But now that they have added prepaid to their array of services it should enable them to compete even more effectively, especially with their largest mobile rival in the pre-paid data space – MTN.
Both Vodacom and MTN have 1.8 Mbps HSDPA offerings, but iBurst’s and Sentech’s 1 Mbps services are not far behind regarding average throughput speeds.
The following table gives a price comparison between services. In cases where no similar service was available the closest comparable service from the provider was selected.
Basic Pricing
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Basic Pricing
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| 500 MB | 1 GB | 2 GB | |
| Vodacom HSDPA | 189-00 | 289-00 | 389-00 |
| MTN HSDPA | 250-00 | — | 399-00 |
| Sentech MyWireless | 199-00 | 299-00 | 449-00 |
| iBurst * | 244-00 | 308-00 | 423-00 |
* In the case of iBurst comparitive values were used to calculate pricing.
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Price per MB for less than 1 GB
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| Price | Cost/MB (in ZAR) | |
| Vodacom 500 MB | 189-00 | 0.38 |
| MyWireless 500 MB | 199-00 | 0.40 |
| iBurst 700 MB | 299-00 | 0.43 |
| iBurst 400 MB | 195-00 | 0.49 |
| MTN 500 MB | 250-00 | 0.50 |
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Price per MB for 1 GB – 2 GB
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| Price | Cost/MB (in ZAR) | |
| Vodacom 2 GB | 389-00 | 0.19 |
| MTN 2 GB | 399-00 | 0.20 |
| MyWireless 2 GB | 449-00 | 0.22 |
| Vodacom 1 GB | 289-00 | 0.28 |
| iBurst 1500 MB | 419-00 | 0.28 |
| MyWireless 1 GB | 299-00 | 0.29 |
| iBurst 1200 MB | 369-00 | 0.31 |
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