Vodacom Slashes Mobile Broadband Pricing
Vodacom has been planning a price reduction of their mobile broadband offerings for a while now, and they have finally announced it with savings of up to 43%.
Vodacom recently also launched a 2GB + 2GB for R149 per month special that competes head on with the Cell C special of 2GB for R149, but this is only a promotion and does not offer any value to current Vodacom Standard broadband subscribers.
The company has now taken the wraps of their new mobile broadband data offering prices with lower in-bundle and out-of-bundle pricing, and they have also removed the 600MB, 1.2GB and 2.3GB packages, replacing them with 1GB, 1.5GB, 2GB, 2.5GB and 3GB packages. Out-of-bundle pricing has also been reduced from R2 per MB to R1 per MB.
From 1 August 2011 all Vodacom Standard data packages will be replaced by the packages bellow, all contract customers now also qualify for the Vodacom Nigh Owl service which offers customers extra bandwidth to the same amount as their bundle size during the hours of 00:00 to 05:00.
New Vodacom Mobile Broadband Pricing
| Old Size | Old Price | New Size | New Price | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8MB | R9.25 | 10MB | R9.00 | 22.41% |
| 30MB | R28.00 | 30MB | R25.00 | 10.75% |
| 110MB | R88.00 | 100MB | R49.00 | 38.75% |
| 175MB | R119.00 | 250MB | R99.00 | 41.18% |
| 300MB | R159.00 | 500MB | R149.00 | 43.40% |
| 600MB | R249.00 | 750MB | R220.00 | 30.95% |
| 1GB | R249.00 | |||
| 1.2GB | R349.00 | 1.5GB | R299.00 | 32.14% |
| 2GB | R349.00 | |||
| 2.3GB | R449.00 | 2.5GB | R429.00 | 10.53% |
| 3GB | R549.00 | 3GB | R489.00 | 11.11% |
| 5GB | R1049.00 | 5GB | R789.00 | 25% |
| 10GB | R2049.00 | 10GB | R1449.00 | 30% |
| 20GB | R3899.00 | 20GB | R2859.00 | 26.32% |

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