Huawei y7 dual sim Phone:

Huawei Y7 is the budget-friendly smartphone that comes with amazing features and a powerful processor. You can get this phone with a great deal from MTN, offering you a super pocket-friendly EMI which make your life easier.

It has a limited offer on Made For Me M deal which offering R269.00 PM × 24 months, especially includes 150 minutes anytime talk time, 100 SMS and 1 GB data pack.

Huawei P smart dual sim Phone:

Huawei P smart is the mid-range best phone, comes with 4 GB RAM and up to 64 GB Storage with a microSD Card. It has a small sized display which is easy to carry and giving one hand to other.

However, CELL C provides you an incredible EMI offer for the Huawei P smart. You can cash pay at R 349 per month.

With this contract deal, you will also get some prepaid data of 150 talk time, 150 SMS, 150 MB for 24 months.

Samsung Galaxy S9 Dual sim phone and contract deal:

The Samsung S9 retains a number of the features of the Samsung Galaxy S8, with a glass back and a front that’s rounded at the sides to offer more of an edge-to-edge impression.

MTN is offering the best contract deal with a good price of R629 Per month X 24.

Especially, they offer a Free Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro on their Made for Me S Promotion.

You can see more details on the cheaper Galaxy J7 by clicking here.

Huawei P20 Lite Dual sim Deal and contract:

Huawei P20 Lite is the lightweight good looking phone with an elegant display. It has a moderate and way expensive design from the P20 series.

Therefore, CELL C offering you an incredible amount of EMI for the Huawei P20 Lite. You can cash pay at R 349 PM. They also provide 100 talk time, 100 SMS, 100 MB for 24 months.

SIM Card Activation:

You can activate your SIM card using your online account. This activation process can be done anywhere using the internet. You can simply install your sim like any other GSM sim card in general. However, Each cellular provider like MTN or Cell C provides a manual including the installation details.

South Africa’s operators:

Vodacom:

Vodacom is South Africa’s largest provider which offers 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE services on a GSM platform. With the widest network coverage, it also has the credibility for the fastest internet speeds. They offer two prepaid sim card -the “regular” plan and the “B4IGO” tourist plan, can be easily purchased from their official stores or supermarkets. You can buy a regular sim card for ZAR5, where the standard data rate is ZAR2 per MB.

Check Internet bundles and activation process

MTN

MTN is the second biggest provider in South Africa which also offers 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE services on a GSM platform. Main towns and cities especially get the major benefits from MTN’s network coverage. Currently, MTN offering cheap data plan with their reliable internet speeds. They offer a prepaid sim card “PayAsYouGo” that you can purchase only for ZAR1.50 (Actually with their promotion, normal price is ZAR5). They have a standard data rate of ZAR0.99 per MB.

Check Details Internet bundles and their activation process

Cell C:

Cell C is the third largest provider in South Africa which offers 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE services on a GSM platform. Main towns and cities especially get the major benefits from Cell C’s network coverage but remote regions customers get suffered. You can purchase their prepaid sim card starter pack for ZAR1, where the standard data rate is ZAR2 per MB. Especially, it comes with access to the SupaCharge plan that provides credit bonuses.

Check Details Internet Bundle and their Activation process

Telkom:

Telkom is the smallest provider in South Africa that offers 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE services on a GSM platform. Not only it’s network coverage is the worst but also it can’t provide a reliable internet speed. However, They offer two prepaid sim card “SIM-Sonke” and “More”, you can purchase any of them for ZAR1. Moreover, their standard data rate is charged at ZAR0.29 per MB.

Check Details Internet bundles and their activation process here

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Although banking with your cellphone or tablet is secure, here you will find 8 cellphone banking security tips to keep your banking account away from criminals and keep your details safe with these tips to protect your devices if they get stolen:

1. Make a note of your device’s International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. This number identifies your device to your mobile service provider. In case your device being lost or stolen, it is imperative that you call the Fraud call center of your bank to help or login to your Online Banking profile and de-link the device.
2. Always keep your personal access information secure, and change your password regularly. Never give your banking security details, including your log in details, to anyone else and do not store these on your mobile phone or tablet. Try setup fingerprint-security in case your device and bank allows for it.
3. Do not store account details, passwords, bank account numbers, card PINs or credit or debit card details on your device. These could be compromised, causing you significant inconvenience.
4. Never leave your device unattended while you are authenticated into your banking application. Always close the application when you are not using it.
5. Only download the phone app to your device from the official app-store and always verify that it is the authentic banking application. The best way to do this is to use the official Apple Store or Google Playstore to install it.
6. IMPORTANT!!! The public wi-fi that your device will be connected to will not be secure. Limit your activity to browsing and avoid committing any transactions that involves your account information.
7. Avoid clicking on or otherwise downloading software or links from unknown sources. Again, try to use the official Apple Store or Playstore to install anything.
8. Be careful about opening links contained in SMS messages or emails. Remember that your bank will never contact you to ask you to show your security credentials (e.g. PIN, Username and Password).

If you decide to sell your smart device or trade it in, make sure you wipe it first (reset it to factory default) to avoid leaving personal data on the device. Some repair centers offer refurbished devices in exchange for your faulty device. Ensure that all personal information is removed from the device that is to be replaced.

Stay safe, and remember, RICA promotions or competitions are FAKE!!

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However, check the data plan and internet bundles of South Africa’s operators

MTN Data Plan & Internet Bundles

MTN has the best network in South Africa, outperforming its rivals in telephony and data services. Moreover, MTN data bundle plans are among the cheapest and arguably unrivaled. In addition to the monthly subscription, MTN offers daily and weekly data plans. Beside others, this mobile operator has several social data bundles which are available for WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter.

According to MTN’s USSD menu, bundles include 1GB / 30 days for R10.00 using WhatsApp or Twitter, and or 1GB / 30 days for R50.00 on Facebook and Youtube.

Especially, MTN data plans are the best internet plans which work perfectly on any device including iPhone, Android, Modems, Windows phones etc.

MTN Weekly data bundles:

MTN Social Media Bundles:

Activation: Dial *143#. Available on Prepaid only.

Vodacom Data Bundle:

Vodacom offers a wide variety of data plans, available and offered in both a recurring and a once-off version. If you buy a SIM and add credit then the data package could be a lot cheaper. Also, you have to do it from the Vodacom app.

Vodacom Daily internet bundle:

Activation: Dial *135#. Valid until midnight on day of purchase

Vodacom Weekly and Monthly Data bundle:

Activation: dial *135#

Weekly bundle valid for 7 days including the day of purchase

Fortnight bundle valid for 14 days including the day of purchase

Cell C data bundle:

Cell C is the third operators in South Africa which offer lots of data bundles with cheaper options. Only 30-day bundles allow rollover of unused allowances to the next month if a new bundle is purchased. Customers can extend the validity of their data bundles indefinitely by purchasing another data bundle before the current 30-day bundle expires.

Cell C 1-3 Months Data Bundle:

Cell C WhatsApp Bundle

Cell C Shout Social Media Bundle:

Telkom Once Off and Reoccurring Data Bundles:

Activation: Dial *180# to purchase

Valid until the end of the next calendar month from date of activation

Bonus Night Surfer Data valid 12am-7am

Roaming on MTN 3G only (not MTN LTE)

Telkom Mobile Internet Starter Data Bundles

Activation: Dial *180*1#

Data credited each month for 12 months

Only Available on Telkom More plan

Compare Data plans:

LTE-A

If you’re travelling for work indefinitely, need to minimize your data cost, best check out Rain or Afrihost for their LTE-A offerings. Especially, it is a ‘mobile fibre connection’ with unlimited data.

Rain offers free unlimited data for a certain amount of days for each contract type ranging from 15 days free to 90 days free. From there, you only pay for the data used, and do not have to load bundles like that with Afrihost — where you’d need to buy bundles. Moreover, each contract choice with Rain also includes a SIM card, or a Huawei smartphone.

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Let’s find out the best mobile Network provider in South Africa

Vodacom

Vodacom is the biggest mobile network provider in South Africa with the highest coverage at the best prices. With a test of an independent network, it achieved the overall highest score for the widest coverage of the country’s mobile network operators. Moreover, the regular prepaid sim cards are available in all of their outlets and supermarkets. While they offer a large variety of price plans, the prepaid 79c planbis the best value plan for voice calls. Vodacom has almost 10,200 cellular networks with population coverage of 99.8% in South Africa.

Most importantly, Vodacom’s 3G population coverage is 96% which is greater than MTN’s 3G coverage.

“Vodacom stood out in particular in OpenSignal’s 3G speed and latency categories, though it faced much stiffer competition from MTN in our core 4G metrics,” the group said.

Considering the brands exceeding and falling short of customer expectations, Johannesburg customers are most satisfied with their service.

MTN

MTN is a multinational mobile phone company primarily based in South Africa and the biggest rival of Vodacom.

Its network and speeds are the highest. MTN launched 4G/LTE in 2014 and MTN’s data is slightly cheaper. MTN is the only provider that roams in Swaziland if you should travel there.

There are network tests like of MyBroadband.za that currently shows MTN’s coverage and data speeds are concerned.

However, the MTN network has been improved a lot during the last few years. Currently, they have rivals with Vodacom for the highest spot.

In March 2018 the heavily promoted Mass SIM card launched. “South Africans now double-up their airtime and data bundles once recharging with MTN’s new Mass SIM for R 5 or more”. However, there are catches hooked up to double airtime and data.

Mass SIM is available only to new MTN prepaid customers, and the bonus airtime and data bundles are valid for only 24 hours once activated.

When it comes to customer satisfaction scores for wireless internet services, MTN literally falling behind its rivals

According to the customer reviews, MTN has some poorer service, it gets the lowest value for money score where Telkom,

Cell C and Vodacom were respectively first, second and third in terms of value for money.

Cell C

Cell C is the third operator in South Africa. It claims to cover 98 of the population, however still has a gap in inbound areas. Cell C started a price competition in 2011 by undercutting its rivals; however, most operators currently provide comparable worth plans. Moreover, Cell C is just cheaper once you use their confusing portfolio of bonuses.

Cell C used to roam on the Vodacom network outside areas of their own coverage for complimentary, however, this applied to 2G and 3G only, not to 4G/LTE. In 2018 Cell C declared it’s coming into an extensive roaming agreement with MTN so as to enhance Cell C’s own mobile network. The agreement will see MTN providing each 3G and 4G services to Cell C in areas wherever Cell C has chosen to buy coverage instead of self-build, primarily outside of the most metro areas.

Telkom

Telkom is a South African-based telecommunication company with the fourth network in the country. It entered the market in 2010 and was referred to as ‘8ta’ before, however, has been rebranded into Telkom. It offers all-time low rates for data in the country of any network operator whereas its coverage is a smaller amount too.

While it’s limited coverage, chiefly in the cities, it roams on the 2G and 3G networks of MTN, however not on MTN’s 4G/LTE. Thus create a network scan before purchase. Note that their own 3G is on 850 MHz rather than the same old 900 MHz in Africa. Moreover, Telkom’s 4G/LTE is on the rare TD-LTE 2300 megahertz (B 40) within the areas (when you turn to LTE).

LTE-A

If you’re traveling for work indefinitely, and data costs are simply chewing through your wallet, best look into Rain or Afrihost for their LTE-A offerings, that is essentially a ‘mobile fiber connection’ with unlimited data.

Rain offers free unlimited data for a particular amount of days for every contract type starting from 15 days free to 90 days free. From there, you merely buy the data used and don’t need to load bundles like that with Afrihost — wherever you’d need to purchase bundles. Every contract choice with Rain additionally includes a SIM card, a mobile dongle or a Huawei smartphone.

Check the mobile data provider ratings with their year-on-year move. (According to the MyBroadband’s network quality tests)

Mobile Data Providers:

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Cell C is still experiencing issus with TLS certificate incompatibility on the SBC platform affecting Wifi calling. Samsung has now pushed back the release of Oreo to S6 and S7 devices to the 31st of May and 22nd of June 2018 respectively.

Samsung keeps disappointing it’s users…

*UPDATE*

The past few weeks, especially if you use Wifi hotspot’s to use “Wifi Calling” and have a Samsung 6 or 7 series (as well as the J series), you would notice it not working anymore. The cause? Android oreo release date in South Africa has been confirmed and networks have been making ready!

It was revealed that this is because of the impending Android Oreo update being rolled out by Samsung. However, as usual, Samsung has dropped the ball and had to further push back the roll-out date.

The good news is, on Thursday, the 17th of May, Samsung will start releasing it’s Android Oreo updates to all the major networks, so those that does not have the S8 or S9, can benefit from the new security enhancements as well as features!

Good news, we’ve just been waiting since forever. Hopefully Samsung will start releasing updates more frequently, especially with security becoming more of a concern for everyday South Africans.

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If you connect to any of the 1 816 AlwaysOn hotspots, found at restaurants, hotels and airports, on 27 April, you won’t have to pay for it, provided you stick to the fair usage policy.

According to to MD, Hayden Lamberti: “At AlwaysOn, the focus has always been about pushing the boundaries and trying new things. Sure, things might not always work out how you plan, but nothing worth doing happens in your comfort zone,” He added: “It is for this very reason that AlwaysOn has decided to push the envelope and attempt what has never been done before in South Africa.”

If you consume a lot of multimedia content, you will be pleased to hear that Super Wi-Fi will also be available for free.

“Super WiFi Hotspots will give you the best Wi-Fi experience and are geared up for high definition quality and high volumes of use. With Super Wi-Fi you can watch videos, download apps and do all the cool things that need high speed connection, without draining your personal data”

Happy Freedom Day to everyone and enjoy the free data!

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Out of airtime and stuck on the road with a flat tire? Those “friends” of yours give you the boot and now you’re stuck in some odd club and all you want to do is go home but have no ways to phone someone?

No worries! You can just dial 127, input the number of the mtn subscriber that you want to call you back (collect) OR use the nifty USSD code: *127*<number to dial>#, and you’re set! The other person will then be able to accept or reject your request and then phone you back on their own airtime. Think of it as “Please Call Me” on super-charge!

The user accepting the calls on the other end can also whitelist your number to automatically accept incoming collect call’s from you by dialing *127# and following the prompts, that way your mom & dad (or even girlfriend or boyfriend) can automatically pay for the call when you need them the most! No more sending a million “Please Call Me” requests

I think this compares very well with Cell C’s ability to give credit on airtime charges and if your whole family is on MTN, very easy to stay in touch by getting that family member who always has airtime to cough up some cash for a quick chat

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Mobile Operator Cell C announced today, that from the 19th of October, data used on WhatsApp would be free, even for Prepaid users on the Megabonus recharge scheme. This is a huge step in the right direction, but with the ailing network struggling to cope with user demand, adding VOIP onto the service might be the nail in the coffin for current Cell C users looking to jump ship.

Jo Dos Santos said operators need to innovate and embrace the change, one such company is mtn. Their data prices have significantly dropped in the last 2 years and there is no signs of stopping. mtn surely have embraced that their user-base now have access to smart phones, and they need data for those smart phones! Their yearly financial report shows at least 30% extra profit because of this mindset shift. However, both Vodacom and MTN have said before that they will charge you R12.50 per megabyte for VOIP services to protect their voice revenue. R12.50 per megabyte? Whereas it’s less than R0.30 now? Crazy

Only the future will tell if these big monopolistic companies will actually change as the technology changes and give us, the consumer, more power and choice.

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Unfortunately I smell “promotion” which entirely negates the words from Jose Dos Santos (their CEO) that Cell C always provided South Africans with the best recharge rewards in the country. Why is it then a promotion with an expiry date dear sir?

Having said that, you would be able to choose to use your extra airtime with voice (Cell C to Cell C calls only), SMS or data, charged at 2.5 cents, 50 cents and R1 / MB respectively. Your added bonus expires 2 days after your initial recharge at midnight. This is one big caveat for those who recharge and use their airtime sparingly.

As an example, if you recharge R20, you get R40 extra value (totalling R60) to use as you please; provided you remember that only Cell C to Cell C calls are supported, much like the mtn promotions and deals.

MegaBonus… I guess Cell C prepaid subscribers will benefit from this regardless… until it expires

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I waited for you to read that again

Yes. For only R1.20 (the first 3 minutes, billed per second), you can have an entire HOUR of talk time from your mtn phone to another MTN subscriber. Makes me wish I was on a prepaid contract

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