{"id":11865,"date":"2010-03-22T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-22T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:41:00","slug":"mobile-data-costs-mtn-vs-vodacom-vs-cell-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/11865-mobile-data-costs-mtn-vs-vodacom-vs-cell-c.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile data costs:  MTN vs Vodacom vs Cell C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN recently announced that it is slashing its Out-Of-Bundle (OOB) data rates on its broadband data bundles by up to 84%.<\/p>\n<p>MTN SA head Karel Pienaar last week said that these price reductions were made possible by the company&rsquo;s continual telecoms infrastructure development in South Africa, and that consumers can expect more of the same as the company&rsquo;s projects start to come online.<\/p>\n<p>The latest OOB data price cuts from MTN mean that they currently offer the best value for money to mobile broadband providers.&nbsp; This bodes well for MTN&rsquo;s plans to become the leading broadband provider in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He who has the most IP packets on its network wins,&rdquo; Pienaar said jokingly in an interview about MTN&rsquo;s broadband plans.<\/p>\n<p>The following table provides an overview of the prices associated with mobile data&nbsp;bundles in South Africa:<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\" bgcolor=\"#eaecff\" bordercolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000066\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000066\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">MTN<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000066\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Vodacom<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000066\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Cell C<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000099\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#000099\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">100 MB<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Basic Bundle Price<\/td>\n<td>R80<\/td>\n<td>R119 (150MB)<\/td>\n<td>R100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OOB Price<\/td>\n<td>R0.65<\/td>\n<td>R2.00<\/td>\n<td>R2.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000099\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#000099\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">500 MB<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Basic Bundle Price<\/td>\n<td>R189<\/td>\n<td>R189<\/td>\n<td>R185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OOB Price<\/td>\n<td>R0.38<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<td>R1.35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000099\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#000099\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>1 GB<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Basic Bundle Price<\/td>\n<td>R289<\/td>\n<td>R289<\/td>\n<td>R285<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OOB Price<\/td>\n<td>R0.29<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#000099\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#000099\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>2 GB<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Basic Bundle Price<\/td>\n<td>R389<\/td>\n<td>R389<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OOB Price<\/td>\n<td>R0.19<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?222787-Mobile-data-bundle-costs-MTN-versus-Vodacom-versus-Cell-C\"><strong>Mobile data prices<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN recently cut its Out-of-Bundle mobile data prices.  This is how the various mobile providers stack up regarding mobile broadband prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}