{"id":3852,"date":"2008-05-20T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-20T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:24:00","slug":"wifi-bundle-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/3852-wifi-bundle-pricing.html","title":{"rendered":"WiFi bundle pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom recently launched its WiFi service, providing subscribers with  worldwide connectivity using Wireless G hotspots locally and partners in  international locations.<\/p>\n<p>The company boasts about 110 000 hotspots worldwide where Vodacom WirelessG  WiFi subscribers can connect, but the critical issue of pricing will most likely  play a role in the success of the product.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom has various different offerings. These include the following packages  which are all valid for 30 days:<\/p>\n<p>100MB for R 79 (R0.79\/MB)<br \/>200MB for R 144 (R0.72\/MB)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 minutes for R25 (R0.83\/Min)<\/li>\n<li>120 Minutes for R86 (R0.72\/Min)<\/li>\n<li>200 Minutes for R120 (R0.60\/Min)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vodacom also has larger packages which are valid for 6 months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>600MB for R229 (R0.38\/Mb)<\/li>\n<li>1000MB for R279 (R0.28\/Mb)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vodacom&rsquo;s international price of R 1.50 per minute out-of-bundle, or 500  minutes for R600 (R1.20 per minute) which lasts for 30 days, aims to attract  frequent international travelers to their WiFi service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MWeb and Internet Solutions will most likely be Vodacom&rsquo;s strongest  competitors in the WiFi space.<\/p>\n<p>MWeb sells three basic packages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R50 for 50 minutes<\/li>\n<li>R100 for 100 minutes<\/li>\n<li>R150 for 150 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At R1 per minute it is relatively expensive when compared to other offerings  in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom&rsquo;s T-Zone also provides WiFi connectivity at R1 per minute. &ldquo;High-speed  Internet access at R1 per minute is very cost effective,&rdquo; Telkom claims.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Solutions has a wide array of offers, including the following  usage-based offering which are valid for 12 months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100MB for R60 (R 0.60 per MB)<\/li>\n<li>250MB for R140 (R 0.56 per MB)<\/li>\n<li>500MB for R250 (R 0.50 per MB)<\/li>\n<li>1GB for R450 (R 0.45 per MB)<\/li>\n<li>2GB for R800 (R 0.40 per MB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following time-based services, which do not expire, are also  available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 minutes for R30 (R 1.00 per minute)<\/li>\n<li>60 minutes for R50 (R 0.83 per minute)<\/li>\n<li>120 minutes for R90 (R 0.75 per minute)<\/li>\n<li>240 minutes for R150 (R 0.63 per minute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While these prices are slightly higher than the Vodacom offering, the freedom  of a package which does not expire may make it a more attractive service to  travelers.<\/p>\n<p>When compared with MWeb and Internet Solutions, Vodacom&rsquo;s WiFi service is not  priced badly. It is, however, unlikely that a current Vodacom HSDPA subscriber  will find much value in these WiFi offerings as the prices are generally far  higher than current in-bundle HSDPA rates.<\/p>\n<p>It is further unlikely that user will have access to Vodacom\/WirelessG WiFi  hotspots in areas without HSDPA coverage in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest value proposition of Vodacom&rsquo;s WiFi offering may however lie in  its international service offering where a predictable rate of connectivity will  eliminate the chances of a nasty cellphone bill because of international roaming  data rates.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=119331\">WiFi pricing discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom recently launched its WiFi offerings. This is how their pricing stacks up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"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=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}