{"id":174810,"date":"2016-08-16T10:57:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=174810"},"modified":"2016-08-16T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T09:24:29","slug":"strange-per-gb-prices-on-mobile-data-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/174810-strange-per-gb-prices-on-mobile-data-packages.html","title":{"rendered":"Strange per-GB prices on mobile data packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile broadband prices of the four mobile operators \u2013 Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, and Telkom \u2013 closely resemble each other for most packages.<\/p>\n<p>The price per GB for mobile data ranges between R25 and R90, depending on which packages you choose.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, the price per GB declines as the data package size increases. There is, however, one exception.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C\u2019s per-GB price for their 3GB packages is more expensive than their\u00a02GB package.<\/p>\n<p>The charts below show the price-per-GB for mobile broadband packages from the three major operators, which\u00a0should not show a jump in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Vodacom-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175307\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Vodacom-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vodacom\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MTN-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175309\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MTN-1.jpg\" alt=\"MTN\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cell-C-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175311\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cell-C-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cell C\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Why 3GB costs more per GB than 2GB<\/h3>\n<p>MyBroadband asked the operators about the\u00a0per-GB price\u00a0on 3GB packages.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said there is a slight per-GB premium built into 3GB packages as the out-of-bundle rate is 50c per MB, compared with R1 per MB on the 2GB packages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MTN \u2013 No comment<\/li>\n<li>Cell C \u2013 No comment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0broadband<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/173470-your-broadband-choices-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Your broadband choices in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/173064-data-is-important-for-telkom.html\">Data is important for Telkom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/170323-great-news-about-broadband-adoption-in-south-africa.html\">Great news about broadband adoption in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C have one data package where its pricing is out of sync with the rest of their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,42,41],"class_list":["post-174810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174810"}],"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=174810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175116,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174810\/revisions\/175116"}],"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=174810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}