Vodacom South Africa announced that iPhone 3G will be available through Vodaworld, Midrand from midnight on 26 September 2008. The revolutionary iPhone 3G will be available to both Vodacom's prepaid and contract customers in all major cities, from participating Vodacom outlets, across South Africa.
iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G networking that is twice as fast*, built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services and iPhone 2.0 software which runs thousands of third-party applications available through the Apple App Store and includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.
Pricing
Vodacom will be making iPhone 3G available to all prepaid and contract customers. Contract customers can choose between Vodacom's new iPhone 120s, iPhone 240 and iPhone 500s Contract packages to get the iPhone 3G at special prices, with great tariffs for voice, SMS and data. Depending on the choice of package, iPhone 3G is available from just R1 799 for the 8GB model on an iPhone 500s package, or from R2 899 for the 16GB model on the same package.
Prepaid customers can purchase the 8GB iPhone 3G for a cash price of R6 389 and a 16GB iPhone 3G for a cash price of R7 569.
Contract customers will be offered up to 250MB data, as well 100 SMSs included in the price of the relevant iPhone 3G package. All Vodacom's iPhone 3G packages make provision for domestic call tariffs and once the plan's monthly limit for data usage has been exceeded, data usage will be charged at R1.50 per MB and standard SMS rates will apply. The table below provides a full overview.
Plan 120s
Plan 240
Plan 500s
Monthly payment
ZAR 450
ZAR 595
ZAR 925
Inclusive minutes
120
240
500
Inclusive SMS
100
100
100
Inclusive data
250 MB
250 MB
250 MB
Retail price 8GB
ZAR 2 189
ZAR 2 189
ZAR 1 799
Retail price 16GB
ZAR 3 299
ZAR 3 299
ZAR 2 899
All prices inclusive of taxes
"We are delighted to offer our customers the revolutionary iPhone 3G." said Shameel Joosub, Managing Director, Vodacom South Africa. With iPhone 3G we can further fulfil our strategy to deliver compelling and engaging Internet services via mobile, to our customers. With special data tariffs to make browsing the Internet economical, Vodacom customers will have a great experience and excellent value tariff packages."
All Vodacom South Africa customers can continue to register on the Vodacom Web site to receive exclusive information about the new iPhone 3G.
Customers can visit www.vodacom.co.za or www.vodacomdirect.co.za for more information on store locations and various tariff plans. Staff at the designated Vodacom participating approved dealers and call centers are trained to help answer any iPhone related queries.
* Based on 3G and EDGE testing. Actual speeds vary by site conditions.
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