{"id":96047,"date":"2014-02-06T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=96047"},"modified":"2014-02-06T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:11:27","slug":"tablet-and-data-deals-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/96047-tablet-and-data-deals-compared.html","title":{"rendered":"Tablet and data deals compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the mobile operators are offering consumers bundled data and tablet PC deals on 24-month contracts.<\/p>\n

Consumers are spoiled for choice when it comes to the number of deals available, with a wide range of devices on offer with different data packages.<\/p>\n

To find the best deal can be challenging. Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom Mobile are all offering popular tablet PCs, but their prices differ on many of these devices.<\/p>\n

To see which providers typically offer the best value for money, MyBroadband selected popular tablets, and compared the monthly cost for this device with a data package.<\/p>\n

The comparison revealed a basic trend that Telkom Mobile is the cheapest, while Cell C is the most expensive.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the monthly cost from the mobile operators on two popular devices \u2013 the iPad mini 16GB and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Tablet and data deals<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operator<\/strong><\/td>\nDevice<\/strong><\/td>\nAnytime data<\/strong><\/td>\nAfter hours data<\/strong><\/td>\nMonthly price<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telkom Mobile<\/td>\nApple iPad mini 16GB<\/td>\n2.5GB<\/td>\n7.5GB<\/td>\nR279<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\nApple iPad mini 16GB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR279<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\nApple iPad mini 16GB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\nR369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MTN<\/td>\nSamsung Galaxy Tab 7.0<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR199<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vodacom<\/td>\nSamsung Galaxy Tab 7.0<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR199<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell C<\/td>\nSamsung Galaxy Tab 7.0<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\nR259<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

More on data and tablets<\/h3>\n

Beware bundled mobile data, tablet deal prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cheapest ever prepaid mobile data prices in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We take a look at which mobile operator\u2019s tablet and data deals offer the best value for money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,355,2714,35,11575,42,645,689,41],"class_list":["post-96047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-cell-c","tag-galaxy-tab","tag-headline","tag-ipad-mini","tag-mtn","tag-samsung","tag-telkom-mobile","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96047"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96085,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96047\/revisions\/96085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}