Vodacom comes out firing as the broadband pricewar hots up

Last week, MTN slashed their broadband prices. Some competitors responded quickly. Sentech quickly dropped their prices even further. Iburst’s response was disappointing, increasing their bandwidth allocation for contract customers only (which sorely peeved month to month customers), and adding data carryover. Meanwhile, Vodacom and Telkom were left as the odd ones out.

Vodacom have put the week’s hiatus to good use, and have responded strongly by undercutting their fierce competitor, leaving Telkom, who’ve announced they will not be cutting prices ‘drastically’, as the only party pooper in the rapidly escalating broadband pricewar.

Vodacom have cut their mobile broadband rates by up to 61%, and also done away with any pricing distinction between HSDPA and 3G. Entry-level customers can now pay as little as R189 for a 500MB package (or R249 with a modem), while their 2GB package sees the most drastic cut, from R998 to R389 (without modem), to come in at R10 less than MTN’s equivalent.

The 10GB package reduces to R1989, the 5GB package to R989, the 3GB package to R689, and the 1GB package to R289 (all without modem).

Vodacom’s new rates will apply from the 1st April (and no, they’re not an April-fools joke).

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