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Cell C finally gets the iPhone

Published by on Jul 16th, 2012, 8 Comments

For the iPhone fans amongst us, Alan Knott Craig has already just given us even more choice when it comes to Apple’s phone. Until now SA could only choose between Vodacom and MTN if you wanted to get an iPhone with your contract.

MyBroadband has gotten hold of the initial pricing, and there is more good news if you want to get hold of the previous generation (but still great) iPhone 4 model with 8GB of storage. The 4S is also there, in all its sizes:

Apple device Price Contract Airtime SMS Data
iPhone 4 8GB R279 Straight Up 50 R50 50 350MB
iPhone 4S 16GB R329 Straight Up 50 R50 50 350MB
iPhone 4S 16GB R479 Straight Up 200 R200 200 500MB
iPhone 4S 32GB R549 Straight Up 200 R200 200 500MB
iPhone 4S 64GB R799 Straight Up 400 R400 400 700MB

 

There are no details yet if you want a lower capacity model with a bigger contract, but so far we like what we see. These contracts seem well suited to users who use their phones less for calling, and more for data – something the iPhone loves to gobble up. The lowest end contract seems like an especially good deal if Siri does not quite sway you.

These contracts makes the current iPhone MTN deals seem especially bad – MTN still only gives 250MB of data with all of their iPhone contracts, which is woefully inadequate. Good on Cell C – it’s great to have more choice for the SA consumer.

Cell C is also offering the iPhone on its 6 and 12 month contracts – but this will naturally push up the handset subsidy per month. But, if you want the latest iPhone every year, the 12 month contract might make more sense than having to wait 24 months before you can get hold of Apple’s latest and greatest.

Related: iPhone 4S in SA – who has the best contract deals?

 

Comments

  • pietervn

    I would love a phone with 8GB of RAM, but I bet the price would be a bit more then.

  • ashrafs

    I’m pretty sure it’s not 8GB of RAM

  • RichardB

    Really? 8GB of ram?
    Can i ask what possible point that would have?
    Maybe 2gb would be a good number but 8gb would simply just be stupid and way to costly!

  • http://www.bandwidthblog.com Minnaar Pieters

    @ashrafs Sorry about that – 8GB of storage. Fixed.

  • http://www.bandwidthblog.com Minnaar Pieters

    @d5fef99ee1ae2aebe06d91ed48899dd9:disqus @85e38ab3dcb1f43f19fd56289fb63f09:disqus Sorry about that – 8GB of storage on the iPhone 4. Fixed.

  • VryeDenker

    In the 1980′s, people scoffed at the idea that a Computer would need more that 640 kilobytes of RAM…

  • CW

    If I am not mistaken it is not Rand value air time but minutes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nathan.blows Nathan Blows

    I checked this against their site. If you use the Build Your Own Contract link (under the Shop tab), the 16GB iPhone on the Straight Up 200 works out to R533, with the 32GB coming in at R591.

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