South Africa’s mobile virtual network operators differ widely in their data pricing, TechCentral research has found.
operators is the best, but deciding what metric to use to determine supremacy in this burgeoning sector is difficult, especially since differentiation is a defining characteristic of the MVNO market.
In today’s data-driven society, data prices – and not so much call or SMS charges – are a key metric for the determination of value in consumers’ minds, so this is the metric we used in our analysis.Finding pricing on barebones data packages is not always straightforward since MVNOs and network operators tend to offer an assortment of packages where voice minutes, data and SMSes are bundled together.
In some cases, data from an MVNO’s website or other advertising material did not include certain size bundles, in which case it was assumed that they were not offered at all. Mr Price Mobile, for example, has 1GB as the largest denomination bundle listed on its website.TechCentral found Afrihost AirMobile to have the most affordable data bundles across all three sizes in its research.
As mentioned, most expensive 10GB bundle is by FNB Connect at R499. This is also the only other 10GB bundle other than Boxercom’s that cost more than R400. After Afrihost AirMobile, Spot Mobile, Me&You and Capitec Connect jointly provide the next best value at R199 for 10GB. The average price for a 10GB bundle from South Africa’s MVNOs is R292.
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