Red Bull MOBILE is expanding their product range by adding new data products to their range.

Red Bull MOBILE has introduced two new data offerings, and through their partnership with Cell C the company is able to give their customers a great all round internet experience.

The new Red Bull MOBILE data offerings operate through Cell C’s HSPA+ network ensuring that customers will always get an enhanced internet experience. The data offerings will be bundled with customised Red Bull MOBILE USB Data Stick and will also have a custom designed user interface manager with some Red Bull flavour to it.

The Red Bull MOBILE data offerings comes available in two varieties, one on a 24 month contract and the other on a once-off package.

The 24 month contract option will cost you R249 per month and will give you 3GB of data every month and a 21Mbps capable Red Bull MOBILE branded Huawei E367 USB Data Stick, out of bundle rates are 39c per MB

The once-off data option will give you access to 6GB total of data that you can use at your own discretion and a Huawei E367 USB Data Stick, this will cost you R1499 once-off.

In addition to the new Red Bull MOBILE data offerings, the company has also introduced new top-up contracts and added the LG Optimus Android smartphone to their RMB 200 package.

For more information about the new Red Bull MOBILE products visit www.redbullMOBILE.co.za

Vodacom, Saturday opened up its new 43.2 Mbps network for business by enabling more than a 1000 base stations with the new technology.

Vodacom’s new SuperMobile network is a dual carrier double speed HSPA+ network offering speeds of up to 43.2 Mbps.

Speaking about this new technology, CEO Pieter Uys said: “If something half the speed was already fast, this we should call this new technology superfast.  Having said that, the SuperMobile experience isn’t about theoretical peak speeds only achievable in laboratories.  We’re much more interested in how this technology increases network capacity and supports our goal of giving a decent connection speed to everyone in South Africa.”

Uys added: “We’ve actually had the technology up and running for some time but we wanted to have a critical mass of at least 1000 base stations before flipping the switch to allow consumers access at up to double the speed.  We wanted to make sure that we had the service available in more than just one city.”

Users wanting to make use of the new SuperMobile 43.2 Mbps network can obtain compatible modems from Vodashops for under R1400 or alternatively get them for free on certain data contracts.

Vodacom will continue to roll out the new double speed HSPA+ network aggressively across South Africa, with the expected enabled base stations to double in the coming months.

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.

A lot of you may have noticed all the recent Heita advertisements on TV and in public and wondered what it is all about. Techcentral unraveled all earlier today.

Heita! That will be the new brand under which Telkom will launch its new Mobile Broadband offering to the public on 14 October 2010.

Heita! will only be the brand name under which Telkom will provide mobile services to consumers while sticking to a more traditional name with Telkom in it for business offerings.

It looks like Telkom has embraced social media with its new Heita brand when you have a look at the new Heita website. It features a twitter feed keeping track of the keyword #heita as well as a blog feed that shows the latest blog posts with the Heita keyword in them. Apart from the streams the Heita website also features Wallpapers and Videos of its advertisement campaigns.

With Cell C that recently announced its new HSPA+ mobile broadband data at prices starting from R34 per GB it would be interesting to see at what Telkom’s Heita mobile offering will be priced.

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.