Vodacom CEO, Peter Uys, once noted that the Cell C promotional data offering, giving clients access to either 2GB or 5GB of bandwidth for a year at a very low price, was not sustainable in the long run, yet Cell C have been continuing to offer clients the special promotional data offerings.

Seems like Vodacom has had a change of heart since it re-branded and are now offering clients a similar product to that of the Cell C 2GB Speedstick offer, with prices as low as 3.6c per megabyte.

The new promotional data offering by Vodacom is a “2GB + 2GB” offering, giving clients a 7.2Mbps HSPA capable modem, 2GB of bandwidth per month, and an additional 2GB of “Night Owl” bandwidth which can be used between 12AM and 5AM, all for only R149 pm. The offering also includes free technical support and a mailbox with 5GB of storage.

Vodacom has just become the most affordable mobile broadband provider in South Africa again, and I would like to see what MTN will do about the new price reduction seeing as they still charge users R389 pm for a 2GB offering.

Cell C recently rebranded and rethink its strategy in the South Africa mobile space and made it clear that they are ready to take on the bigger cellphone operators MTN and Vodacom.

With the relaunch of Cell C’s branding the company also announced that they will be launching a brand new 4G network capable of broadband speeds of up to 21Mbps.

Cell C is already advertising its new HSPA+ packages on its website, currently seems like there will be 2 packages available, one with a maximum speed of 7.2 Mbps and another with a maximum speed of 21.6 Mbps.

The two broadband offerings from Cell C comes in way bellow that of MTN and Vodacom working out R63 and R50 per GB respectively.

1. 7.2 Mbps capable modem with 2GB worth of data every month for 12 months at only R1499
2. 21.6 Mbps capable modem with 5GB worth of data every month for 12 months at only R2999

Availability of these new Cell C broadband packages will be made public later this week.