{"id":28600,"date":"2011-07-10T23:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=28600"},"modified":"2011-07-11T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T08:49:20","slug":"mtn-uncapped-broadband-pricing-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/28600-mtn-uncapped-broadband-pricing-compared.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN uncapped broadband pricing compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C<\/a> stunned the market in September 2010 with their aggressively priced mobile broadband products, but consumers had to wait until April 2011 for Vodacom<\/a> and MTN<\/a> to respond.<\/p>\n

What followed was a multitude of broadband specials which included Vodacom and MTN\u2019s 2GB for R149 promotions, 8ta\u2019s R199 for 10GB special, and Telkom\u2019s<\/a> data bonus to their ADSL ISP subscribers.<\/p>\n

MTN has now added to the list of competitively priced broadband products by slashing the prices of its uncapped mobile broadband packages.<\/p>\n

MTN last week announced that it reduced the pricing for its Broadband Uncapped Lite package from R749 to R299, and cut the price of the MTN Broadband Uncapped Profrom\u00a0 R1,999 to R899.<\/p>\n

The two packages are subject to a fair usage policy of 3GB and 10GB respectively. Once the 3GB or 10GB fair use limit has been reached, the connection speed will be reduced to 128kbps for the user for the remainder of the month.<\/p>\n

Pricing compared<\/strong><\/p>\n

MTN\u2019s pricing compares favourably with non-promotional pricing for competing offerings in the market. If you include promotional offerings however, 8ta\u2019s<\/a> R199 for 10GB special blows the competition out of the water.<\/p>\n

The table below provides a basic pricing comparison for some of the prominent mobile broadband packages and promotions available in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2GB\/3GB mobile data prices<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Service<\/strong><\/td>\nData (GB)<\/strong><\/td>\nAfter-hours data (GB)<\/strong><\/td>\nMonthly Cost<\/strong><\/td>\nBest Cost\/MB<\/strong><\/td>\nBasic Cost\/MB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom 2GB + 2GB<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nR149<\/td>\n0.04<\/td>\n0.07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C Contract Promotion<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR149<\/td>\n0.07<\/td>\n0.07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN 2GB Promotion<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR149<\/td>\n0.07<\/td>\n0.07<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN 3GB Uncapped<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n40<\/td>\nR299<\/td>\n0.01*<\/td>\n0.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C Smartdata 3GB<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR400<\/td>\n0.13<\/td>\n0.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta 3.2GB<\/td>\n3.2<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR500<\/td>\n0.15<\/td>\n0.15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom 3GB<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR565<\/td>\n0.18<\/td>\n0.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
High end mobile data prices<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Service<\/strong><\/td>\nData (GB)<\/strong><\/td>\nAfter-hours data (GB)<\/strong><\/td>\nMonthly Cost<\/strong><\/td>\nBest Cost\/MB<\/strong><\/td>\nBasic Cost\/MB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta Promotion<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR199<\/td>\n0.02<\/td>\n0.02<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta Promotion<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nR299<\/td>\n0.01<\/td>\n0.03<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C (Prepaid)<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR250<\/td>\n0.05<\/td>\n0.05<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C (Contract)<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR299<\/td>\n0.06<\/td>\n0.06<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN 10GB Uncapped<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n40<\/td>\nR899<\/td>\n0.02*<\/td>\n0.09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom 10GB<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nR1,845<\/td>\n0.18<\/td>\n0.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

*We used the theoretical download maximum of 16 kilobytes per second over a 30 day period to calculate MTN\u2019s lowest possible per-MB pricing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTN recently slashed the pricing of their uncapped mobile broadband packages. This is how they stack up against competing offerings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[473,44,355,35,42,41],"class_list":["post-28600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-8ta","tag-broadband-2","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600"}],"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=28600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28608,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28600\/revisions\/28608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}