At those price points, it seems all but clear that MTN is gunning for Rain, which has dominated uncapped mobile data offerings in South Africa for several years.<\/p>\n
Many of Rain’s 4G and 5G packages are still cheaper than MTN’s.<\/p>\n
For example, its popular Unlimited 4G for any device product is priced at R479 and offers unlimited at up to 10Mbps download speeds.<\/p>\n
However, Rain’s packages have some notable limits that do not apply to MTN’s products.<\/p>\n
Firstly, Rain imposes strict limitations on specific protocols on the 4G and entry-level 5G package \u2014 a factor that has been a source of subscriber complaints.<\/p>\n Rain limits streaming resolutions to 360p and 720p on its Unlimited 4G and Unlimited Home 5G Basic packages, respectively.<\/p>\n Setting the resolution higher than those limits on YouTube will lead to buffering, which might be a deal-breaker for avid streaming video viewers.<\/p>\n Rain also throttles VPN usage and torrent downloads on these packages.<\/p>\n In contrast, MTN’s Fair Usage Policy for its Uncapped Home LTE offers does not mention streaming resolution caps or torrent throttling.<\/p>\n In addition, although Rain has expanded its 5G coverage significantly<\/a><\/strong> in recent months, it is still far from the reach of MTN’s fixed-LTE coverage.<\/p>\n Consumers are therefore less likely to have 5G available in their area.<\/p>\n We compiled the uncapped 4G and 5G offers available from MTN and Rain to see how they stack up.<\/p>\n We also included Telkom’s uncapped home LTE offers, which are available directly from the operator on a contract or through Afrihost or Axxess on a month-to-month basis.<\/p>\n We did not consider limited-hour packages like Rain’s unlimited off-peak product for R250, or Telkom’s Business hours SmartBroadband Wireless Unlimited LTE.<\/p>\n The table below compares the uncapped LTE and 5G packages available from MTN, Rain, and Telkom.<\/p>\n MTN is taking the fight to Rain with its own uncapped LTE packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":417572,"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":[4,14],"tags":[35,42,43716,61659,34765,45390],"class_list":["post-417528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-rain","tag-rain-5g","tag-uncapped-lte","tag-uncapped-mobile-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417528"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417586,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417528\/revisions\/417586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211008_082621-scaled-e1633675473639.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n
\n Uncapped LTE and 5G packages in South Africa<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Package<\/strong><\/td>\n Speed<\/strong><\/td>\n Limitations<\/strong><\/td>\n Router and subscription type<\/strong><\/td>\n Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Rain Unlimited 4G for any device<\/td>\n 10Mbps<\/td>\n 360p streaming
\nVPNs throttled
\nTorrents throttled<\/td>\nSIM-only \u2014 Month-to-month<\/td>\n R479<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Rain Unlimited Home 5G Basic<\/td>\n 25Mbps<\/td>\n 720p streaming
\nVPNs throttled
\nTorrents throttled<\/td>\nFree-to-use router \u2014 Month-to-month<\/td>\n R499<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n MTN Uncapped Home Wi-Fi 10Mbps<\/td>\n 10Mbps<\/td>\n 400GB FUP \u2013 2Mbps speeds<\/td>\n Router \u2014 contract
\nSIM-only \u2014 month-to-month<\/td>\nR499<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Rain Unlimited Home 5G Standard<\/td>\n 50Mbps<\/td>\n 1080p streaming
\nVPNs throttled
\nTorrents throttled<\/td>\nFree-to-use router \u2014 Month-to-month<\/td>\n R699<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n MTN Uncapped Home Wi-Fi 20Mbps<\/td>\n 20Mbps<\/td>\n 600GB FUP \u2013 4Mbps speeds<\/td>\n Router \u2014 contract
\nSIM-only \u2014 month-to-month<\/td>\nR699<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Telkom SmartBroadband Wireless Unlimited<\/td>\n 10Mbps<\/td>\n FUP:
\n250GB \u2013 4Mbps
\n300GB \u2013 2Mbps<\/td>\n\u00a0Router \u2014 contract<\/td>\n \u00a0R749<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n MTN Uncapped Home Wi-Fi 30Mbps<\/td>\n 30Mbps<\/td>\n FUP:
\n700GB\u00a0 \u2013
\n4Mbps speeds<\/td>\nRouter \u2014 contract
\nSIM-only \u2014 month-to-month<\/td>\n\u00a0R799<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n MTN 5G Unlimited Data<\/td>\n 100Mbps average
\n500Mbps peak<\/td>\nFUP:
\n200GB \u2013 2Mbps speeds<\/td>\nRouter \u2014 contract<\/td>\n R949<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Telkom Uncapped LTE through Axxess<\/td>\n \u00a010Mbps<\/td>\n FUP:
\n250GB \u2013 4Mbps
\n300GB \u2013 2Mbps<\/td>\nSIM-only \u2014 Month-to-month<\/td>\n \u00a0R995<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Rain Unlimited Home 5G Premium<\/td>\n \u00a0“Ultrafast download speeds”<\/td>\n Multiple HD streams<\/td>\n Free-to-use router \u2014 Month-to-month<\/td>\n \u00a0R999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Telkom Uncapped through Afrihost<\/td>\n \u00a010Mbps<\/td>\n FUP:
\n250GB \u2013 4Mbps
\n300GB \u2013 2Mbps<\/td>\nSIM-only \u2014 Month-to-month<\/td>\n \u00a0R999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Now read: New Telkom data deals \u2014 15GB for R99<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"