{"id":531305,"date":"2024-04-04T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=531305"},"modified":"2024-04-04T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:23:21","slug":"rain-increases-prices-for-uncapped-4g-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/531305-rain-increases-prices-for-uncapped-4g-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Rain increases prices for uncapped 4G services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rain has notified customers that the prices of their grandfathered uncapped 4G services will increase on their May billing date.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn line with inflation, we are updating our prices,\u201d the operator told subscribers.<\/p>\n

Contacted for comment, a Rain spokesperson said that the average price increase across these plans is 6.8%.<\/p>\n

Rain\u2019s 19 hours off-peak 4G for any device package will increase by over 7.5% from R265 to R285 per month.<\/p>\n

This plan offers existing subscribers uncapped connectivity for 19 hours per day, from 23:00 to 18:00.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Rain\u2019s regular 4G for any device product will get a 7.2% price increase from R499 to R535 per month.<\/p>\n

Its 4G phones-only service will get a 6.27% increase from R319 to R339 per month.<\/p>\n

Rain stopped selling these products<\/strong><\/a> in May last year when it launched a fully-fledged national mobile network with its Rain One product suite.<\/p>\n

With its network fully supporting voice calls and SMS messaging, Rain launched a combination product offering fixed 5G and two mobile 4G SIMs starting at R559 monthly.<\/p>\n

These Rain One (stylised rainOne) packages let subscribers customise their fixed 5G speeds and select how much data, minutes, and SMS messages the two mobile SIMs come with.<\/p>\n

In November, Rain launched a new \u201cskinnable\u201d 5G router with AX3600 Wi-Fi support and increased the base price of Rain One to R595 per month.<\/p>\n

The company has confirmed its Rain One prices will not increase in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of mobile, top-up gigs, minutes, and SMS \u2014 [these] remain at the current prices, as do level-ups and speed-ups,\u201d Rain said.<\/p>\n

Rain\u2019s price increases for its grandfathered uncapped 4G products are summarised below.<\/p>\n

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Rain uncapped 4G price increases \u2014 2024<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Package<\/strong><\/th>\nDetails<\/strong><\/th>\nOld price<\/strong><\/th>\nNew price<\/strong><\/th>\nDifference<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
4G for any device<\/td>\nUp to 10Mbps<\/td>\nR499<\/td>\nR535<\/td>\nR36 (7.2%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 hours off-peak 4G for any device<\/td>\nBest-effort<\/td>\nR265<\/td>\nR285<\/td>\nR20 (7.5%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4G for phones<\/td>\nBest-effort<\/td>\nR319<\/td>\nR339<\/td>\nR20 (6.3%)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rain has informed customers subscribed to its grandfathered 4G services that their prices would increase from their May billing date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":484185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,43716,67663],"class_list":["post-531305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-rain","tag-rain-4g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531305"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}