{"id":50003,"date":"2012-05-16T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50003"},"modified":"2012-05-30T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T09:09:41","slug":"mobile-broadband-pricing-comparison-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/50003-mobile-broadband-pricing-comparison-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile broadband pricing comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C<\/a> has slashed the price of their 500MB and 2GB postpaid data packages and their 24GB prepaid SIM products. The postpaid price cuts were in excess of 50%.<\/p>\n

Cell C’s price cuts followed announcements from MTN<\/a> and 8ta<\/a> that they have extended their 2GB prepaid data and GoBig promotions respectively.<\/p>\n

Vodacom<\/a> is also currently running a mobile broadband promotion for contract subscribers, offering them a 1GB data package and modem for R99 and 2GB and a modem for R149 per month.<\/p>\n

This raises the question of how the different mobile broadband promotions compare on price and who offers the best deal.<\/p>\n

The table below provides an overview of some of the prominent mobile broadband promotions in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Provider<\/strong><\/td>\nData (GB)<\/strong><\/td>\nModem included<\/strong><\/td>\nAfter hours data<\/strong><\/td>\nOOB price<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice (Rand)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
500MB data contract<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.39<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.39<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1.00<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/td>\n0.5<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.38<\/td>\n189<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1GB data contract <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1.00<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.39<\/td>\n199<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/td>\n1<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.29<\/td>\n289<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2GB data contract <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.39<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.39<\/td>\n119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1.00<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.29<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Provider<\/strong><\/td>\nData (GB)<\/strong><\/td>\nModem included<\/strong><\/td>\nAfter hours data<\/strong><\/td>\nOOB price<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice (Rand)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10GB data contract <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.30<\/td>\n199<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n0.30<\/td>\n299<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n0.50<\/td>\n1449<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2GB prepaid data bundles<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n1.00<\/td>\n149<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.19<\/td>\n189<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n2.00<\/td>\n369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prepaid 12 month package<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\n24<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.39<\/td>\n1299<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8ta<\/td>\n60<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n1.00<\/td>\n1800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C halves data prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

10GB for R199 mobile data promotion extended<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C Woza Wheneva \u201cupgraded\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

MTN 2GB for R189 promotion extended<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SA mobile subscriber numbers compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C has cut its mobile broadband prices by over 50% while MTN and 8ta has extended their mobile data promotions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46146,"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],"tags":[473,355,35,42,41],"class_list":["post-50003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-8ta","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50003"}],"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=50003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50279,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50003\/revisions\/50279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}