With the iPhone 4S set to launch at midnight in South Africa, details have emerged about MTN’s pricing and packages for the iPhone 4S.

MTN will offer the iPhone 4S on three different packages that start from R499pm to R819pm, all packages will include a 250mb data bundle every month for the duration of the 24 month contract.

MTN are yet to announce at what stores the iPhone 4S will be available from tomorrow, but they have confirmed these pricing on their Facebook page. What I do find dissapointing is the fact that even though they opened up pre-registration of the iPhone 4S they are now requesting that you go into a store tomorrow to get the iPhone 4S.

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

Both Vodacom and MTN officially launched the Apple iPhone 4 here in South Africa last night and since midnight consumers could get their hands on the device at selected flagship stores.

A previous screenshot leaked to the Internet of what was believed to have been official MTN iPhone 4 pricing was however not accurate but did in fact give us a great overview as to what we can expect to pay for the iPhone 4 here in South Africa.

Vodacom users can expect to get the iPhone 4 on all existing Vodacom tarrifs with it being free on the iPhone Talk 500 and Talk 1000 packages. The flagship Vodacom offer is the iPhone Talk 500 priced at R925 per month which includes the 16GB iPhone 4, 250MB data, 100 free SMS messages and 500 talk minutes a month.

MTN certainly means business and has undercut Vodacom heavily when it comes to pricing for the iPhone 4 in South Africa.

MTN users can expect to get the iPhone 4 starting from R379 per month which includes, R200 airtime, 150MB data, 25 free SMS messages with the 16GB iPhone 4. There is also an option with 300MB data for R429 per month. The 32GB iPhone 4 is available at R429 per month which includes 150MB data or R479 for 300MB of data.

You can get the iPhone 4 at 36 selected MTN stores and all 84 participating Vodacom outlets from today.

MTN and Vodacom are set to launch the iPhone 4 tonight at midnight but up until now the big question on the lips of consumers was at what price will the iPhone 4 be available.

A photo was leaked earlier of MTN contract pricing for the iPhone 4, the prices are as follows:

Please note these prices have not been confirmed by MTN.

Official Pricing for Vodacom and MTN has been released.

Here on iGeek it is no secret that Leaf will be launching three new Google Android phones today in South Africa. We have been discussing the release of the HTC Desire and HTC Legend for a few weeks now and the response has been phenomenal.

Leaf is having their launch for the HTC Desire, Legend and Smart today and the question on the lips of every gadget junkie is when will they be able to get their hand on these phones, especially the HTC Desire. iGeek reader Jon was the first to spot the price on the MTN website yesterday and soon notified us about it.

Looks like MTN is currently marketing the HTC Desire under its other name called the HTC Desire. Here are the packages you can get the HTC Desire / Bravo on.

Pricing is pretty much on par as to what the Hero was available for, and I think its really decent for the phone you get. Remember the HTC Desire has the same specs as the Google Nexus One.

WebAfrica last year announced that they are moving over to a tier-1 network that would enable them to provide cheaper prices and have more control over their network with regards to new types of products.

WebAfrica has since switched over to their own tier-1 network at the end of last year and promised new pricing that would compete with the now competitive local ADSL market. WebAfrica has released their new ADSL pricing and left many disappointed with prices almost double that of current ISPs like Afrihost with their R29 per GB ADSL accounts.

Although WebAfrica does provide new services with their ADSL accounts like unlimited free gaming bandwidth for playing on their new Wage gaming network and a soon to be launched steam content server that also allows for unlimited free bandwidth to download content from the steam server, it still does not justify the high prices they still charge for ADSL bandwidth.

Some users called the new WebAfrica pricing a joke and extremely disappointed while others said that they were glad they switched over to Afrihost back when they launched their R29 per GB pricing.

I personally don’t see users making use of the current Afrihost or G-Connect ADSL accounts switching over to WebAfrica any time soon. Bellow is a table of the new pricing from WebAfrica.