8ta prepaid mobile data prices vs Vodacom, MTN and Cell C

Beri said:
Well done 8ta. I know that Jannie will say unsustainable and they will wait for 10 months and then "slash" their price by R2.20 per gig
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Actually, go and read my posts from last year and/or my quotes in the press on what will happen this year and see how it matches to what we're seeing. ;)
 
An additional extra column on the table that would be interesting would be the rollover applicable to each of these options.
 
MTN are a joke. I am paying R50 for 75mb and they have not changed their prices one bit since 2007. 5 Years ago.
 
ginggs said:
Cell-C do have a 1.2GB bundle for R250, but, IMHO, the most important omission from the article is the 3GB / 365 day bundle @ R399.
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Sodan said:
You're right, that's a rather important omission. I guess this is just another case of shoddy journalism from mBB.
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I think the point of the article was just to show where 8ta's new pricing fits in compared to the rest of the market. It's not really fair to compare Cell C's 1.2GB bundle to 8ta's 1GB bundle.

The 365 day Cell C deal is so vastly different from 8ta's normal prepaid packages that I don't understand how you want to compare it.

That said, I'm sure I can twist RPM's arm to do a prepaid data deal round-up (if I don't do it myself) ranked by cost/MB.

Of course then we have to deal with all these packages that include after hours bandwidth, and regardless of how we handle it I'm sure someone will take issue.
 
RPM, recommendation into the future when showing these datasets - a graph with horizontal axis being the bundle size and the primary vertical axis the Bundle price, and the secondary vertical axis the R/MB?

Personally I like graphs, they give you a quick view of where something is sitting, and allow for bundles with different sizes to be better compared with each other.
 
I tested 8ta's 3G internet via a prepaid sim+2GB data over December, worked as well as CellC's ever did... so I've taken the plunge and gone with their 10GB for R199/month... holding thumbs that it works as well as the prepaid data does!
 
jmak said:
RPM, recommendation into the future when showing these datasets - a graph with horizontal axis being the bundle size and the primary vertical axis the Bundle price, and the secondary vertical axis the R/MB?

Personally I like graphs, they give you a quick view of where something is sitting, and allow for bundles with different sizes to be better compared with each other.
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I would like that too!
 
I was just wondering why anyone would buy MTN prepaid data. If one cannot get an 8ta signal but can get a reasonable MTN signal then just buy an 8ta sim and roam to mtn and save or is there something I am missing ?
 
rory said:
I was just wondering why anyone would buy MTN prepaid data. If one cannot get an 8ta signal but can get a reasonable MTN signal then just buy an 8ta sim and roam to mtn and save or is there something I am missing ?
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Yip, if you have a smartphone on contract with MTN. Switching sims for when you want data is going to be seriously annoying.
 
rory said:
I was just wondering why anyone would buy MTN prepaid data. If one cannot get an 8ta signal but can get a reasonable MTN signal then just buy an 8ta sim and roam to mtn and save or is there something I am missing ?
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The 8ta data promo's do not roam on the MTN network; must be in an 8ta coverage area.
 
Speedster said:
Yip, if you have a smartphone on contract with MTN. Switching sims for when you want data is going to be seriously annoying.
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Yes I guess if one has a contract one needs to continue with mtn but if one uses a prepaid sim in a 3g router or 3g modem it would make no sense to continue with mtn ?
 
MickeyD said:
The 8ta data promo's do not roam on the MTN network; must be in an 8ta coverage area.
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Yes it is an easy decision if one gets 8ta signal but even if one does not and one gets a reasonable mtn signal then no need to go to a mtn prepaid sim just use 8ta sim and roam as even these bundles are cheaper than MTN ?
 
rory said:
Yes it is an easy decision if one gets 8ta signal but even if one does not and one gets a reasonable mtn signal then no need to go to a mtn prepaid sim just use 8ta sim and roam as even these bundles are cheaper than MTN ?
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You can't roam on MTN with 8ta data deals (Internet Promo5, 60GB+60GB etc)
 
Speedster said:
You can't roam on MTN with 8ta data deals (Internet Promo5, 60GB+60GB etc)
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I think you need to reread the article. It is mainly discussing the non promo prepaid data prices which as far as I understand do allow roaming onto MTN and these prices are much cheaper than MTN's prepaid data prices.
 
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