{"id":2251,"date":"2007-12-15T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-15T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T09:10:00","slug":"cellular-data-bundles-who-offers-the-best-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/2251-cellular-data-bundles-who-offers-the-best-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Cellular Data Bundles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who offers the best deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN started a price war early in 2007 by reducing the price of their data bundles by 20% and throwing in a free Gigabyte of data for their 1 GB subscribers. <\/p>\n

Vodacom soon retaliated with a 61% price reduction on their 2 GB bundles, reducing the price from R 998-00 to R 389-00.<\/p>\n

Since then the cellular data market has been relatively quiet, but both MTN and Cell C recently announced another set of price cuts to make their product offerings more competitive.<\/p>\n

Best Deal<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the sub-500 MB usage category MTN gives the best deals with their R 10-00 for 10 MB and R 169-00 for 350 MB bundles. Neither Vodacom nor Cell C comes very close to matching the per-MB rates for similar usage packages.<\/p>\n

In the 500 MB, 1 GB and 2 GB usage categories – which have become something of a de-facto standard for cellular data bundles – the prices are very similar.<\/p>\n

Cell C is slightly cheaper for both 500 MB and 1 GB of usage. Their price of R 185-00 for 500 MB and R 285-00 for 1 GB just beats Vodacom and MTN’s R 189-00 for 500 MB and R 289-00 for 1 GB.<\/p>\n

One thing to keep in mind when comparing the three cellular providers is that Cell C only offer EDGE – which is significantly slower than MTN and Vodacom’s HSDPA – which makes a direct comparison is not entirely fair. Many Vodacom and MTN subscribers however make use of the companies’ EDGE offering which partly justifies the comparison.<\/p>\n

MTN and Vodacom both charge R 389-00 for 2 GB of data.<\/p>\n

The following tables give a basic overview of the most prominent data packages from the three mobile providers and the rates associated with these packages.<\/p>\n

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Cellular Data Bundle Rates<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Privider<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nSpeed<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nUsage<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nCost<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\nCost \/ MB<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Entry Level <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n10<\/font><\/td>\n10<\/font><\/td>\n1.00<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n75<\/font><\/td>\n88<\/font><\/td>\n1.17<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n20<\/font><\/td>\n28<\/font><\/td>\n1.40<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/font><\/td>\n244<\/font><\/td>\n25<\/font><\/td>\n39<\/font><\/td>\n1.56<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Under 500 MB<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n350<\/font><\/td>\n169<\/font><\/td>\n0.48<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n250<\/font><\/td>\n160<\/font><\/td>\n0.64<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n150<\/font><\/td>\n119<\/font><\/td>\n0.79<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n80<\/font><\/td>\n0.80<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/font><\/td>\n244<\/font><\/td>\n200<\/font><\/td>\n175<\/font><\/td>\n0.88<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/font><\/td>\n244<\/font><\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n100<\/font><\/td>\n1.00<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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500 MB <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/font><\/td>\n244<\/font><\/td>\n500<\/font><\/td>\n185<\/font><\/td>\n0.37<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n500<\/font><\/td>\n189<\/font><\/td>\n0.38<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n500<\/font><\/td>\n189<\/font><\/td>\n0.38<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1 GB <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/font><\/td>\n244<\/font><\/td>\n1024<\/font><\/td>\n285<\/font><\/td>\n0.28<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n1024<\/font><\/td>\n289<\/font><\/td>\n0.28<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/font><\/td>\n1800<\/font><\/td>\n1024<\/font><\/td>\n289<\/font><\/td>\n0.28<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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MTN and Cell C recently reduced their data bundle prices, raising the question as to who gives the best deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"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=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}