If price if the most important factor, then Vodacom and MTN should not be your go-to providers for prepaid data bundles.
South Africans looking for the cheapest prepaid mobile data should avoid the major players and consider one of several smaller mobile virtual network operators .
MVNOs do not own radio network infrastructure and don’t licence the spectrum they use to transmit signals. Even when using the price bundles bought over the counter or via the standard USSD interface, K’nect was often the most affordable or second-cheapest network. After that, it charges R30 per 1GB 30-day bundle, which is still the second cheapest of all the operators.The two biggest mobile networks — Vodacom and MTN — were generally more expensive than the MVNOs.
Customers consuming multiple tens of gigabytes of mobile data every month would do best to avoid FNB Connect, as its prices for bundles with 20GB or more were unusually high. However, Cell C technically no longer operates its own infrastructure, instead relying on MTN to manage its radio access network and a roaming agreement with Vodacom.K’Next has specifically said it uses Cell C on MTN. That does not mean you can expect MTN-like performance, however.
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