MTN in Rwanda - flat rate no cap

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Whats with MTN Rwanda offering flat rate, no cap internet, but they cant do it in SA?!

They have pretty much had monopoly for some time now, but Terracom has recently come in with their cdma offers and are marketing agressively. It seems they only offer it because they have to. They can afford it apparently. SO... you gonna tell me that they are worse off in SA? Noooo.... they just dont have to.

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Mams said:
according to www.mtn.rw the costs are:
Prepaid users: 20000 RWF = R 240.45
Contract users: 18000 RWF = R 216.40

NO CAP and in SA the very same MTN gives us only 350mb for R 220-00....

RApe is a mild way of describing it...
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Maybe they only have gprs, so they can only download half a gig a month.
 
chop said:
Maybe they only have gprs, so they can only download half a gig a month.
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when we only had GPRS, MTN charged R50 per mb...

I may be wrong - but i think you can download 500mb in under 40 hours at 40kbps -
but i get your point...at that speed no one who follows a "fair use policy " will use more than 1gb at the most ...they obviously will upgrade to EDGE...then lets see their tariffs...

another thingy: there are networks ( worldwide ) that are offering flatrated EDGE and 3g data so if they ( MTN,Voda and CELLC ) really want to, we all know that they can do it- they obvioulsy wont do it - why make less profit when u not forced to?

lets hope the SNO causes the market to change

Oh..and when there was only GPRS and MTN had a free trial period, i ran up 100mb in about 3 days ( dont remember the details ) with a Siemens ME45 connected to my laptop
 
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Mams said:
we all know that they can do it- they obvioulsy wont do it - why make less profit when u not forced to?
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I'm not too sure of that, just look at the ridiculous prices Telkom charges for bandwidth, although I do think that they can lower their prices to say R100 a gig
 
if Vodacom and/or MTN introduce affordable internet here, they can really get a huge number of subscribers. But they don't seem interessted to make an investment and go for it.

We all know internattional bandwith is expensive but they could easily create a package with 5Gb local and 2Gb international for a reasonable price (+-R300).

Can you imagine how many people would go for it. Although I think they should perhaps get an ISP to manage their data support etc. before then. The support they currently have is really crap.

Btw, I'm sure the only reason they have such low prices in Rwanda is due to competition.
 
Don't foget that MTN and Vodacom STILL charge the same for GPRS even after HSDPA introduction... speed is not the issue...
 
I haven't seen any uncapped offerings from mobile operators without some strict T&C like, no p2p, no streaming, soft caps, etc.
Anybody know of a no-strings-attached uncapped offering anywhere in the world?
 
EdRobinson said:
Don't foget that MTN and Vodacom STILL charge the same for GPRS even after HSDPA introduction... speed is not the issue...
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I was implying that with a lower access speed they can't download as much and maybe that was why they got a flat rate. [bad joke, I know]
 
Yeah

chop said:
I was implying that with a lower access speed they can't download as much and maybe that was why they got a flat rate. [bad joke, I know]
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not to worry - was aimed at mtn and voda - ha ha

btw - poor joke lol!
 
chop said:
Maybe they only have gprs, so they can only download half a gig a month.
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You can download with 64Kbits p/s

1000KB/8KBps = 120seconds
2minutes 1 mB

Total would be 21600MB per month.

You People who are discussing Telkom international data charges..

Why not use a Satelite, Surely Telkom didn't get shares with naasa as well? :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
MTN & Vodacom are raping this country & getting away with it.

When MTN made their HSDPA prices exactly the same as Vodacom, competition in the HSDPA arena effectively ceased to exist.

I dare any of the MTN or Vodacom reps to comment on this.
 
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