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Vodacom Wi-Fi

7 Comments 24 July 2008

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Vodacom Wi-Fi, launched by Vodacom, has all it’s Wi-Fi offerings which are available via WirelessG’s Wi-Fi hotspots. This Wi-Fi service is available to all Vodacom contract, top up and prepaid customers.

Apart from access via WirelessG hotspots, Vodacom customers will also have access to the Wi-Fi service while traveling overseas via 110 000 hotspots at destinations outside of South Africa.”

Vodacom’s Wi-Fi services are fairly priced when compared to offerings from some of their competitors”.

MWEB charges R 1.00 per minute for its Wi-Fi access, but it should be noted that their subscribers receive 300 minutes of free Wi-Fi access per month. MWEB members can also use the company’s iPass service at hotspots overseas.

Internet Solution’s Wi-Fi products retail for R150 for 4 hours, R90 for 2 hours, R50 for 1 hour and R30 for 30 minutes.

There is no doubt that these Wi-Fi products are a convenient and necessary alternative for travelers especially with the 2010 World Cup just around the corner but the market is becoming increasingly more competitive. “

What are you thoughts on the Vodacom Wi-Fi Service? You are able to see what other are saying about Vodacom’s Wifi on Mybroadband. Have you used it yet?

*disclaimer I was paid to write my thoughts on this service

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  • http://yuppieguy.com Dimitrio

    It can only be a good thing that Vodacom is jumping on this bandwagon, I personally think it is long overdue! Lurv the disclaimer!

  • http://www.daveduarte.co.za Dave

    Lol, it’s about time;)

  • http://blog.ainslie.co.za Chris

    I’m not so sure this is “good”.

    I’ve commented on this at http://blog.ainslie.co.za/?p=9

  • http://www.thezashow.com/ Glen

    Rafiq,

    What is the benefit of the time based pricing model of WIFI hotspots compared to a cost per data transferred model that, for example, Skyrove, offers?

  • http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips

    great post there Chris TYFYC :)

  • http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips

    Glen TYFYC. Your question is great, I think time based pricing for a service like this reminds me of dial-up. We all know what happened to dial-up don’t we?

    Why use a pricing structure that smells so 1.0 on a service that they themselves are embracing 2.0 to get the word out?

    I <3 skyrove, even used skyrove to publish this post ;)

    @geekrebel can i has a #skyrove t-shirt pweas.

  • http://www.thezashow.com/ Glen

    You hit the nail on the head Rafiq. It is these time based pricing models that is keeping myself and I’m sure many others from using them instead of 3G/HSDPA. and yep, so 1.0 indeed.

    Gosh, imagine somebody who is logging on rushing to respond to an e-mail just to prevent a high WIFI bill?

    How about a t-shirt based on those WIFI detect t-shirts where the Skyrove logo lights up when it detects a Skyrove hotspot? hehe




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