Vodacom has announced that it will implement\u00a0a below-inflation average price increase on selected packages on 1 April 2019.<\/p>\n
No specific details on the price increases were provided, and the announcement was made as part of a statement on new out-of-bundle (OOB) data rates.<\/p>\n
A number of tariff changes will be made to Vodacom’s packages to align with ICASA’s End-User and Subscriber Service Charter regulations which take effect from 28 February 2019.<\/p>\n
The company said these changes would include an OOB rate reduction of up to 70%, in addition to revised data rollover mechanisms.<\/p>\n
Vodacom will lower its out-of-bundle rates from R0.99 per MB for prepaid customers and R0.89 for hybrid and contract customers to R0.49 per MB across the board.<\/p>\n
Additionally, customers who sign up for Vodacom’s new Data Refill feature will have an effective OOB rate of R0.30 per MB once their bundle is depleted.<\/p>\n
These changes will come into effect on 1 March 2019.<\/p>\n
Vodacom also announced it has adapted its systems to align with ICASA’s new regulations, following the authority voicing its concern<\/strong><\/a> about the network’s approach to data rollover.<\/p>\n The mobile operator said that contract customers who are subscribed to packages which include data will continue to have data rolled over for one month, free of charge.<\/p>\n Remaining data on bundle purchases by all customers will be rolled over at no additional charge if a customer purchases the same bundle, the company said.<\/p>\n It added that it would announce more changes to this system in the near future.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition to simply implementing the ICASA regulations, we have gone further by slashing out-of-bundle data rates by between 45%-70% to ensure increased value to customers,” said Vodacom.<\/p>\n “Additionally, rollover of data will be free. Over the past three years, Vodacom has reduced the effective price of data by more than 40% which shows that our pricing transformation journey continues to deliver real value to customers.”<\/p>\n Vodacom customers will also be able to transfer data that is about to expire other users on the Vodacom network for fees ranging from free for 50MB, up to a maximum of R20 for 1GB.<\/p>\n Vodacom has announced tariff changes to a number of its packages to align with ICASA’a End-User and Subscriber Service Charter regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":232631,"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":[57706,35,533,11851,56858,41],"class_list":["post-297664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-data-refill","tag-headline","tag-icasa","tag-regulations","tag-transfer","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297664"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297666,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297664\/revisions\/297666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Vodacom will charge you to roll over mobile data<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"