{"id":283447,"date":"2018-11-05T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=283447"},"modified":"2018-11-05T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:59:03","slug":"virgin-mobile-r15-whatsapp-bundle-prices-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/283447-virgin-mobile-r15-whatsapp-bundle-prices-compared.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mobile R15 WhatsApp bundle – Prices compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virgin Mobile recently launched a WhatsApp bundle<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0which offers subscribers 600MB of WhatsApp messaging data for 30 days for R15.<\/p>\n

Virgin Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) which uses Cell C\u2019s network to serve its subscribers.<\/p>\n

The company is competing against Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C for the heart of WhatsApp users in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Cell C currently offers the best value for money, however, with its 30-day WhatsApp bundle with 1.2GB of data for R17.<\/p>\n

Vodacom and MTN charge R29 and R30 respectively for 30-day WhatsApp bundles which offer 1GB of data.<\/p>\n

In July 2018, Telkom briefly entered the market with a 1GB WhatsApp bundle for R15, where the data lasted for 30 days.<\/p>\n

This was only a promotional offer, though, and the company stopped this product soon after launch.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp bundles<\/h3>\n

The table below shows the best WhatsApp bundles available on local networks.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Monthly WhatsApp Bundles<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Network<\/strong><\/td>\nWhatsApp Data<\/strong><\/td>\nValidity<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Virgin Mobile<\/td>\n0.6GB<\/td>\n30 Days<\/td>\nR15<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n1.2GB<\/td>\n30 Days<\/td>\nR17<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n30 Days<\/td>\nR29<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n30 Days<\/td>\nR30<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n4GB<\/td>\n30 Days<\/td>\nR49<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Now read:\u00a0How much it costs to send a WhatsApp message in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virgin Mobile\u2019s R15 WhatsApp bundle is the cheapest 30-day offer in the market, but it does not offer the best value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,42,1119,41,2594],"class_list":["post-283447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-virgin-mobile","tag-vodacom","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283447"}],"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=283447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283479,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283447\/revisions\/283479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}