{"id":19489,"date":"2011-04-04T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-04T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:07:00","slug":"cheaper-broadband-pricing-from-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/19489-cheaper-broadband-pricing-from-vodacom.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper broadband pricing from Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom has come under fire from consumers for not reducing their mobile data pricing, especially after Cell C entered the market with aggressively priced promotional data products.<\/p>\n

Vodacom and MTN’s mobile data bundle pricing have not changed much since early 2007, and despite giving data a longer lifetime and dropping out-of-bundle rates consumers feel that it is time for another big price cut.<\/p>\n

Vodacom has previously indicated that they are looking at lower data prices, but also said that they cannot simply drop their broadband pricing by a large margin as this may cause a significant rise in data traffic which may negatively impact the overall customer experience.<\/p>\n

The company has however started to show signs of dropping their data rates.  As part of the company’s rebranding exercise it launched 24-month ‘device-free’ broadband advanced data bundles which are more affordable than their current broadband advanced pricing.<\/p>\n

This promotion essentially reduces Vodacom’s mobile data pricing as follows for subscribers using their own devices:<\/p>\n

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  1. 500MB – R149 (down from R185)<\/li>\n
  2. 1GB – R249 (down from R285)<\/li>\n
  3. 2GB – R339 (down from R385)<\/li>\n
  4. 3GB – R529 (down from R565)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Vodacom’s device-free broadband advanced pricing is more competitive, but still not the cheapest in the market as the table below shows.<\/p>\n

    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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    Mobile data prices<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Data bundle<\/strong><\/td>\nVodacom<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMTN<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nCell C (Prepaid)<\/strong><\/td>\n8ta (includes modem)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    500MB<\/strong><\/td>\nR149<\/td>\nR189<\/td>\nR150<\/td>\nR195 (650MB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1GB<\/strong><\/td>\nR249<\/td>\nR289<\/td>\nR250 (1.2GB)<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2GB<\/strong><\/td>\nR339<\/td>\nR389<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    3GB<\/strong><\/td>\nR529<\/td>\n—<\/td>\nR400<\/td>\nR500 (3.2GB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

    Vodacom spokesperson Nomsa Thusi explained that this data pricing is their “data bundle pricing which exclude the device”, and can be used with any device.<\/p>\n

    Strange pricing continues<\/strong><\/p>\n

    What has become a (perplexing) standard scenario with Vodacom is that high end users get the short end of the stick. <\/p>\n

    The cost of a 2GB data bundle translates into 16.6c per MB while the cost of a 3GB data bundle is 17.2c per MB. <\/p>\n

    It is not clear why these anomalies continue to slip into Vodacom’s data pricing when it is standard practice to reward high end users with cheaper per-MB rates.<\/p>\n

    Cheaper Vodacom broadband pricing<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Vodacom is offering their subscribers device-free broadband advanced bundles at reduced prices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489"}],"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=19489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}