Vodacom Limitless vs Telkom Mobile Unlimited vs Cell C Infinity

The one on the far right is clearly the best deal... Unlimited SMS... WTF!!!!
 
What a fail........ They clearly took that one straight (up) out of the Vodacom play book....
 
Er, look at the deals. How many minutes of calls will you really make in a month? Even with the S4 deal, if you were making 200 minutes of OFF-net calls on Cell C, you'd still be saving like R 300 / month. In fact, you'd need to make 500 minutes (approx) of calls every month just to be getting the same price as you'd pay on Vodascum (and that only cos you took a cheaper phone).
PLUS, with 3 Gigs of data, you're gonna be doing a lot more Skyping anyway.
(And wtf does "special promotion" mean on the Voda deal?)
 
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K3NS31 said:
Er, look at the deals. How many minutes of calls will you really make in a month? Even with the S4 deal, if you were making 200 minutes of OFF-net calls on Cell C, you'd still be saving like R 300 / month. In fact, you'd need to make 500 minutes (approx) of calls every month just to be getting the same price as you'd pay on Vodascum (and that only cos you took a cheaper phone).
PLUS, with 3 Gigs of data, you're gonna be doing a lot more Skyping anyway.
(And wtf does "special promotion" mean on the Voda deal?)
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How are you saving on the Cell C offer? For R999 a month you get 3GB data, an S4 but ZERO off network calls! For every minute that you talk to someone on Voda/MTN you will pay 99cents.... 300 minutes increases the bill to R1299 in that month!

It's a rubbish deal!
 
flashsa said:
snip...300 minutes increases the bill to R1299 in that month!

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Comprehension much?

1299 per month is still cheaper than the next equivalent deal - Vodacom's 1499 per month (Assuming you took an S4 - if you took an iphone 5, Voda would be 1799 and Cell C would still be 1299 in our example)
AND you'd get much more data.
AND you'd pay less in the months where you talk less, so unless you're gonna talk more than 500 minutes OFF net every single month, you're gonna come out ahead after 2 years on the Cell C deal with the S4 (in our example)
 
K3NS31 said:
Comprehension much?

1299 per month is still cheaper than the next equivalent deal - Vodacom's 1499 per month (Assuming you took an S4 - if you took an iphone 5, Voda would be 1799 and Cell C would still be 1299 in our example)
AND you'd get much more data.
AND you'd pay less in the months where you talk less, so unless you're gonna talk more than 500 minutes OFF net every single month, you're gonna come out ahead after 2 years on the Cell C deal with the S4 (in our example)
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The Cell C Straight Up 200 S4 deal is currently R499pm. For every 100 extra off-net minutes that you talk on this contract, it adds R99 to your bill. You will also receive 1GB of data which you will not be able to use up because Cell C's network is still patchy at best (I am on this contract so I speak from experience).

Again I ask, why would you pay R999 per month and then be charged for every minute of talk time?

Your argument is flawed and I hope I have given you a hard-on with my impeccable comprehension this time around.....
 
MickeyD said:
Too lazy to search - what's the latest market share? VC/MTN/CCC/TM - I guess 40/40/15/5.
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I think the stats will be skewed with these packages. High end users will buy them, and I suspect they will calls a large number of Telkom landlines for business. Telkom may therefore be close to MTN and Vodacom, with Cell C fourth.
 
1. These guys obviously know that we need (yes, need) data for our phones, but they clearly feel that we should lose our arms and legs for it. Screw access to Internet stimulating economies (thereby providing them more customers), they want your arm (and your leg) NOW.

2.
...with calls to other networks charged at 99c per minute.
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This is idiotic. Why would you take a phone contract thats so expensive yet you can't call 90% of cell phone users with the bundle?

3. Where's MTN in all of this? :confused: :mad: :sick:


:whistle:
 
flashsa said:
The Cell C Straight Up 200 S4 deal is currently R499pm. For every 100 extra off-net minutes that you talk on this contract, it adds R99 to your bill. You will also receive 1GB of data which you will not be able to use up because Cell C's network is still patchy at best (I am on this contract so I speak from experience).

Again I ask, why would you pay R999 per month and then be charged for every minute of talk time?

Your argument is flawed and I hope I have given you a hard-on with my impeccable comprehension this time around.....
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I agree 100%. Never worked out the numbers, but I suspected a lower-priced Cell C contract would probably trump this in many cases. I was however referring specifically to the high-end deals being compared in the actual article.
Hence my first line: "er, look at the deals."
Maybe you should've been more specific in your first post and mentioned the straight up 200.

Also, have you worked out how the 3GB affects this? (Assuming you're in a region where you do get good data coverage - I am, btw, so I can attest to it's existence).
 
K3NS31 said:
Comprehension much?

1299 per month is still cheaper than the next equivalent deal - Vodacom's 1499 per month (Assuming you took an S4 - if you took an iphone 5, Voda would be 1799 and Cell C would still be 1299 in our example)
AND you'd get much more data.
AND you'd pay less in the months where you talk less, so unless you're gonna talk more than 500 minutes OFF net every single month, you're gonna come out ahead after 2 years on the Cell C deal with the S4 (in our example)
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You make a point with your comparison to Vodacom, but the argument when thought more logically doesn't make complete sense.

So, in effect you are saying one should pay R999/mth for 3GB + R300 worth of airtime. Right?

But, 1GB = R150. 3GB = R450. R450 + R300 = R750. Add R100 that you'd use to call Cell C numbers and you spend R850 in total.

So, why go for the R999 deal.

Or look at it another way:
GS4 deal = R399/mth with 1GB/mth & R100 talktime. Add 2GB = additional R300 and R300 to make your total talktime worth R400.

Total therefore = R399 + R300 + R300 = R999 giving you 3GB and R400 of talktime to any network (including Cell C).
 
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K3NS31 said:
Maybe you should've been more specific in your first post and mentioned the straight up 200.

Also, have you worked out how the 3GB affects this? (Assuming you're in a region where you do get good data coverage - I am, btw, so I can attest to it's existence).
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Cell C Straight Up 200 for R499pm gives you:
*Samsung Galaxy S4
*200 all network minutes, OOB minutes at 99c per minute charged per second
*200SMS/MMS per month
*1GB data

Add on an extra 2gb data bundle for R310pm (with OOB data at 15c per MB) and you are in for R809pm with the same data as infinity but with 200 any network minutes.

Yes you are limited to 200 SMS's (who uses more than 200 a month?) and you don't have unlimited Cell C to Cell C calls, but out of my phonebook, for example, Cell C numbers comprise less than 10% compared to VODA/MTN/8TA/TELKOM landline.....
 
flashsa said:
Cell C Straight Up 200 for R499pm gives you:
*Samsung Galaxy S4
*200 all network minutes, OOB minutes at 99c per minute charged per second
*200SMS/MMS per month
*1GB data

Add on an extra 2gb data bundle for R310pm (with OOB data at 15c per MB) and you are in for R809pm with the same data as infinity but with 200 any network minutes.

Yes you are limited to 200 SMS's (who uses more than 200 a month?) and you don't have unlimited Cell C to Cell C calls, but out of my phonebook, for example, Cell C numbers comprise less than 10% compared to VODA/MTN/8TA/TELKOM landline.....
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Thanks for doing the manual labour on that one.
Personally, I'd choose this option for sure. One can only assume they see a target market which places an emphasis on high data usage over voice calling. Because that's the only use case where that deal would be a better option than this one as far as I can see.
 
If you need unlimited SMS's on a contract, you are failing hard with technology...
 
K3NS31 said:
Thanks for doing the manual labour on that one.
Personally, I'd choose this option for sure. One can only assume they see a target market which places an emphasis on high data usage over voice calling. Because that's the only use case where that deal would be a better option than this one as far as I can see.
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If I may be blunt, NO target market should go for the INFINITY R999 deal.

Look at it another way. I can take out an S4 Straight Up 100 for R399pm and get 1GB data. I bolt on 2GB of extra data for R310pm. I am now up to R709pm and I have the same data as INFINITY and the same phone, but I also have 100 any network minutes.

WHY would I pay an extra R290pm for INFINITY and receive no extra worthwhile value?

I can't make this any clearer. The INFINITY deal is rubbish!!
 
Yeah. Seems like the folks at Cell C didn't really think this one through. The only 'fix' here is to throw in unlimited off-net minutes (like the other SPs in the comparison) or at least a couple of hundred off-net minutes for the deal to make any sense.

Good work pointing out the massive flaws in this, flashsa.
 
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