Free HSDPA Cards swaps, Lower Prices for Vodacom Customers

Great, Vodacom effectively upped everyone's speed from 384kbits to 1.8Mbits free of charge!

I thought i would only ever see this overseas! Good on you Vodacom :D
 
Through this move Vodacom has shown what is possible in the broadband arena, and it is not difficult to see why they are considered to be the wireless broadband leader.
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Its a start. Hope their guilty conscience grabs them real bad.
 
Suspect the lower prices are imminent.
 
Dependant on ICASA approval, the market can also look forward to further reductions in certain Vodacom data tariffs in the near future. Vodacom said that there will be a significant reduction in price on the slower services, and that users will have a choice as to which service they want to pay for.
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Not that I pay a lot of attention to this - but when ever were there reductions in the price of data traffic? While it is all very nice to swap cards and I laud vodacom why don't they just stop f#cking around - and lower prices across the board - and make these technologies available to everybody - for the people. Even basic voice costs - no more value added services!! Lower the price FFS - across the board - for the people. Decent data connect costs would open up the internet to lots of - da people. What is wrong with this country - profiteering out of control.
 
This is such good news that I can't help wondering what's the catch.Things like this never happen in SA
 
Well the fact that one a 1.8mb link people might buy alot more bandwidth at a nice R500 a gig?

And their profits must be sky high from this service already, an upgrade was expected.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
Well the fact that one a 1.8mb link people might buy alot more bandwidth at a nice R500 a gig?
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True, the article says that the drop in data prices will apply to customers on the lower speed package meaning normal 3G. There's the catch right there ;) Customer centricity my a$$
the market can also look forward to further reductions in certain Vodacom data tariffs in the near future. Vodacom said that there will be a significant reduction in price on the slower services
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According to the cellular giant their long awaited prepaid data bundles will most likely be available from the 1st of July
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i'll resist the urge to ask v3g for a comment :D
 
Definately, R500 is crazy. I know its not meant to be high usage... but honestly, this is probably one of SA's worse access options.

Youre cruising at 1.8mb/s and yet can only browse (lightly) and receive a few emails.

But then there is the great mobility... well it works for Vodacom i geuss, they are the biggest Broadband suppliers by in the wireless arena right? then Iburst with 20 000 users.
 
Dependant on ICASA approval, the market can also look forward to further reductions in certain Vodacom data tariffs in the near future.
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Isn't this a little backwards in terms of progress? Why do they have to ask approval for a reduction? This is anti-competitive legistation. Probably because government have their fingers in every pie.
Not that I pay a lot of attention to this - but when ever were there reductions in the price of data traffic?
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Around the third quarter of 2005 from R50+/MB to R2/MB.
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True, the article says that the drop in data prices will apply to customers on the lower speed package meaning normal 3G.
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Probably only a slight reduction for 3G. The real reduction will be for GPRS which is practically useless.
 
ic said:
Although I was initially sceptical about Vodacom changing their pricing structure to offer a lower price for lower [than EDGE|3G|HSDPA] connection speeds on say GPRS, it does make sense since 2G infrastructure has been in place for years [just not used much for data before January 2005 due to the much higher price prior to that across Vodacom & MTN & CellC].
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This doesn't make sense. Vodacom is conning everyone here. Why reduce the price on old and outdated technologies which people don't want to use anymore? New technologies make the cost of data cheaper, not more expensive. http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=480597&postcount=40"

If Vodacom reduces the price on the faster technologies then people will tend to use more data and Vodacom would be able to recover their cost much quicker than by "promoting" older technologies. Don't fall for it and be duped. Use the older technologies to force them to drop the price on the newer technologies. They'll be the ones losing out in the end.
 
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Prometheus said:
This doesn't make sense. Vodacom is conning everyone here. Why reduce the price on old and outdated technologies which people don't want to use anymore? New technologies make the cost of data cheaper, not more expensive. http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=480597&postcount=40"

If Vodacom reduces the price on the faster technologies then people will tend to use more data and Vodacom would be able to recover their cost much quicker than by "promoting" older technologies. Don't fall for it and be duped. Use the older technologies to force them to drop the price on the newer technologies. They'll be the ones losing out in the end.
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It makes very much sense to reduce the slow speed technology rates: Eg it is in many instances cost effective to use GPRS instead of Telkom dial-up for internet connectivity at home.

Dropping these rates will swing the scales even more against Telkom.

Downloading e-mail does not require super speed - it requires reliability at whatever speed - even a trickle will download a MB eventually.
 
kaspaas said:
It makes very much sense to reduce the slow speed technology rates: Eg it is in many instances cost effective to use GPRS instead of Telkom dial-up for internet connectivity at home.

Dropping these rates will swing the scales even more against Telkom.

Downloading e-mail does not require super speed - it requires reliability at whatever speed - even a trickle will download a MB eventually.
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I agree but woudn't it be even better to drop rates for higher speeds like 3G|HSDPA coz the way I see it lower prices will aid uptake in this new technology. I mean something like GPRS is aging and should be close to free. Give everyone a fair chance to use 3rd generation technology by dropping prices for it.
 
feo said:
I agree but woudn't it be even better to drop rates for higher speeds like 3G|HSDPA coz the way I see it lower prices will aid uptake in this new technology. I mean something like GPRS is aging and should be close to free. Give everyone a fair chance to use 3rd generation technology by dropping prices for it.
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In South Africa the first problem is to provide affordable technologies to connect to the net.

Then only comes the luxury of speed.

I've been in Angola recently and then realised the impact of a data poverty on a community. Only problem: The community does not realise it!
 
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