{"id":613449,"date":"2025-10-08T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=613449"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:02:59","slug":"vodacom-launches-summer-deals-including-7-5gb-for-r99-and-free-youtube-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/613449-vodacom-launches-summer-deals-including-7-5gb-for-r99-and-free-youtube-premium.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom launches summer deals \u2014\u00a0including 7.5GB for R99 and free YouTube Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vodacom has unveiled its summer specials for 2025, including prepaid data bundles ranging from R49 to R479, and a 100GB contract offer for R299 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promotions include two months of access to YouTube Premium, a year or more of Amazon Prime Video, and ways to earn and spend Vodacom\u2019s rewards points, VodaBucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a recent event in Johannesburg, Vodacom consumer business director Rishaad Tayob said their headline deal for summer would be a R99 bundle with 7.5GB anytime, 7.5GB Night Owl, and 5GB YouTube data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tayob said that customers also enjoyed the V-Up programme last year, and Vodacom would keep it. V-Up allows customers to open loot boxes every day, which contain a variety of rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These rewards vary from an allocation of free data, to restaurant vouchers, to entries into draws for cash prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe big prize this year is that we are going to make eight customers millionaires,\u201d said Tayob. \u201cTwo customers per month for the duration of the campaign will win a million rand each.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Vodacom will give away a million VodaBucks to 100 customers during its Summer Campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathys Venter, the managing executive for loyalty and prepaid at Vodacom South Africa, said that they have never done a promotion this ambitious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that when customers buy one of their promotional bundles, they will receive an SMS with instructions for how to redeem their two months of YouTube Premium access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also partnered with Amazon. By simply being a Vodacom customer, recharging, and interacting on the platforms, we are giving away 12 months free Prime Video mobile edition to all our prepaid customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promotional bundles are exclusive to the VodaPay app, and Venter said they will be available until the end of February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th colspan=\"4\">Vodacom 2025 Summer Campaign prepaid deals<\/th><\/tr><tr><th>Anytime data<\/th><th>Night Owl data<\/th><th>YouTube data<\/th><th>Price<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>3GB*<\/td><td>3GB*<\/td><td>\u2014<\/td><td>R49* (14 days validity)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7.5GB<\/td><td>7.5GB<\/td><td>5GB<\/td><td>R99<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15GB<\/td><td>15GB<\/td><td>5GB<\/td><td>R149<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30GB<\/td><td>30GB<\/td><td>\u2014<\/td><td>R249<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>75GB<\/td><td>75GB<\/td><td>\u2014<\/td><td>R379<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>150GB<\/td><td>150GB<\/td><td>\u2014<\/td><td>R479<\/td><\/tr><tr><td colspan=\"4\">All bundles include 2 months YouTube Premium access<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postpaid summer deals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There will also be promotional offers for Vodacom postpaid customers, including contract deals and benefits for existing contract subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rashid Tar-Mahomed, the managing executive for products and services and Vodacom\u2019s postpaid centre of excellence, said they will launch a 200GB contract for R299 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contract comprises 100GB of anytime data, 100GB Night Owl data, with an additional allocation for YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tar-Mahomed also explained that any customers who upgrade or get a new postpaid deal will receive two months of access to YouTube Premium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All postpaid customers can also get access to an Amazon Prime Video mobile package for 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A supercharged version of this promotion will be available for Vodacom RED VIP subscribers, who will receive lifetime access to the full leanback version of Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For as long as they remain a RED VIP subscriber, they will also get Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to promotion contract deals and their streaming partnership benefits, Tar-Mahomed said customers will also be able to earn additional VodaBucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that subscribers on entry-level postpaid packages will earn 20% additional VodaBucks, whereas people on Core products will earn 30% more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RED VIP subscribers will earn 50% additional VodaBucks for every rand spent. Customers must pay their bill on time to earn VodaBucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tar-Mahomed said they\u2019ve also added the physical outlets of Vodacom Stores as a new way to redeem VodaBucks. Customers will be able to use their rewards to buy accessories at Vodacom stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has unveiled its summer specials for 2025, including prepaid data bundles ranging from R49 to R479, and a 100GB contract offer for R299 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":602424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[39088,101748,100769,89438,41,69287,2150,50853],"class_list":["post-613449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-mathys-venter","tag-rashid-tar-mahomed-2","tag-rishaad-tayob","tag-vodacom","tag-vodapay","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613449"}],"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=613449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613450,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613449\/revisions\/613450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}