Hi CellC
My wife needs to upgrade her phone next month, but there is a problem. She wants to upgrade her iPhone 5 to the iPhone 5s. She currently pays R399pm for her Straight Up 200 contract AND she gets 500MB of data. Now I have the same contract with the iPhone 5s and paying R499pm also with 500MB data (which I can understand as they are sold side-by-side and the 5s is more expensive), that I got in May this year.
NOW, CellC has for the iPhone 5s is R589!!! With only 150MB data! Please explain to me how a contract can increase with R2112 over the 24 month period, keeping in mind that CellC dropped its data pricing as well as their call rates (which existing customers do not qualify for as they signed on the old 99c rates) and the 5s has been in SA for almost a year already! Yes the exchange rate has been volatile, but movement was less than half a US cent difference from the beginning of the year and today.
My theory is CellC inflates the pricing before the launch of the new iPhone and then "lowers" it when the new one is launched, but the "lowered" price is the same they asked for the phone a year ago!?!
My wife needs to upgrade her phone next month, but there is a problem. She wants to upgrade her iPhone 5 to the iPhone 5s. She currently pays R399pm for her Straight Up 200 contract AND she gets 500MB of data. Now I have the same contract with the iPhone 5s and paying R499pm also with 500MB data (which I can understand as they are sold side-by-side and the 5s is more expensive), that I got in May this year.
NOW, CellC has for the iPhone 5s is R589!!! With only 150MB data! Please explain to me how a contract can increase with R2112 over the 24 month period, keeping in mind that CellC dropped its data pricing as well as their call rates (which existing customers do not qualify for as they signed on the old 99c rates) and the 5s has been in SA for almost a year already! Yes the exchange rate has been volatile, but movement was less than half a US cent difference from the beginning of the year and today.
My theory is CellC inflates the pricing before the launch of the new iPhone and then "lowers" it when the new one is launched, but the "lowered" price is the same they asked for the phone a year ago!?!