{"id":6843,"date":"2009-02-06T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-06T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T22:19:00","slug":"vodacom-taking-on-neotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/6843-vodacom-taking-on-neotel.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom taking on Neotel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has launched its PhonePlus service (<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/9248\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Phoneplus device image<\/strong><\/a>)&nbsp;&ndash; a home or office wireless telephone offering that uses the Vodacom network coverage. It comes with a Voice and SMS option on prepaid and a Voice, SMS and Internet option on contract.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom&rsquo;s PhonePlus service makes use of a wireless desktop phone, very similar to Neotel&rsquo;s NeoConnect product range.&nbsp; The cost of the service is R289.00 per month which includes 500 MB of data and 50 SMSes.<\/p>\n<p>With this offering Vodacom is competing directly against Neotel&rsquo;s residential voice and data offerings, and partly against Telkom&rsquo;s fixed line offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Neotel&rsquo;s NeoConnect pricing starts at R299.00 for 2 GB of data, 500 free on-net voice minutes and 25 free on-net SMSes &ndash; a better value proposition than Vodacom&rsquo;s offering.<\/p>\n<p>Neotel is significantly cheaper when it comes to call rates and data pricing &ndash; 8c per MB out of bundle in comparison to Vodacom&rsquo;s R 2 per MB &#8211; but its lack of extensive coverage may give Vodacom a foothold in the wireless desktop phone market.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom is also rolling out a 3G\/HSDPA network, and has already started replacing traditional fixed line phones with wireless desktop units in areas affected by high levels of cable theft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=157128\"><strong>Vodacom PhonePlus discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom launches fixed wireless PhonePlus service for voice, Internet and SMS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843"}],"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=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}