{"id":149743,"date":"2015-12-14T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149743"},"modified":"2015-12-14T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T13:07:49","slug":"cheapest-sa-mobile-network-for-using-while-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/149743-cheapest-sa-mobile-network-for-using-while-on-holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheapest SA mobile network for using while on holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tariffic has released its Q4 2015 Perfect Package Tracker, detailing the best network to be on when travelling overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tariffic has devoted its latest edition of the Perfect Package Tracker for 2015 to the various rates you pay, on your South African SIM card, as you travel abroad,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>It gave examples using &#8220;Tsepho, Susanne, Chris, and Howard&#8221;, who are travelling to different countries and will use various aspects of their South African mobile service &#8211; as detailed in the graphic\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p>Tariffic found that when travelling overseas and using your local network provider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best network for travels to the United States &#8211;\u00a0<strong>MTN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best network for travels to England &#8211; <strong>MTN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best network for travels to Mauritius &#8211; <strong>MTN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best network for travels to Thailand &#8211; <strong>Vodacom<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Overall best network for overseas travels &#8211; <strong>MTN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cheapest international calling from South Africa &#8211; <strong>Cell<\/strong> <strong>C<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best roaming rates (calling, SMS, data) &#8211; <strong>Vodacom<\/strong> and <strong>MTN<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Best network for receiving calls from SA while traveling &#8211; <strong>MTN<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Perfect package for travelling overseas<\/h3>\n<p>The infographic below details the call rates, mobile data, and SMS prices of local mobile operators when using their services in The States, United Kingdom, Mauritius, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TPPT-Q4-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149745 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TPPT-Q4-2015.jpg\" alt=\"TPPT Q4 2015\" width=\"630\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TPPT-Q4-2015.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TPPT-Q4-2015-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TPPT-Q4-2015-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TPPT-Q4-2015-608x430.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More cellular news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/149719-mtn-signs-deal-to-improve-customer-service.html\">MTN signs deal to improve customer service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/149443-vodacom-neotel-merger-moves-ahead.html\">Vodacom-Neotel merger moves ahead<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariffic has released its Q4 2015 Perfect Package Tracker, detailing the best network to be on when travelling overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,3610,861,22043],"class_list":["post-149743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mobile-data","tag-roaming","tag-tariffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149743"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149747,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149743\/revisions\/149747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}