Micro SIM now available from Vodacom
The 64K Micro SIM that can be used with devices such as the Apple iPad and iPhone 4, is now available from Vodacom.
Micro SIM cards are about 52% smaller than regular SIM cards, yet they have the same thickness and contact arrangement as regular SIM cards and they operate in exactly the same manner too. The new Apple iPad and iPhone 4 will require the Micro SIM to be used on the Vodacom network. Now just before you try to create your own Micro SIM card by using a chef knife and some scissors, we just wanted to let you know that these SIM cards are currently available at Vodashops (price: R105 each incl. VAT)!
You can activate the Micro SIM on Contract, Top Up or Prepaid:
- New Contract and Top Up clients will have to sign a 24 month contract and Prepaid clients will have to activate a Prepaid Starter Pack and then perform a SIM swap (@ R62.99 incl. VAT).
- Existing clients can do a SIM swap (@ R62.99 incl. VAT) if they are not going to need their existing SIM cards anymore. Alternatively the micro SIM could also be set up as a Twin Call SIM so your existing Data Contract can be used on either your existing regular SIM or on the Micro SIM on the iPad. Unfortunately, though, both SIMs will not function at the same time. This constraint practically means that one device will need to be disconnected when the other SIM is required to connect.
Once your Prepaid Micro SIM is activated, you need to find an easy and effective way to buy airtime and data bundles. Vtime will recharge your Micro SIM direct and pinless with airtime and data bundles (Standard and Advanced data). All you need to do is to register Vtime as a beneficiary on your internet banking and make an EFT. Shortly after your EFT, you will receive an SMS from Vodacom to inform you that your Micro SIM has been recharged. If your Micro SIM is in a device that cannot receive an SMS (e.g. the iPad), you will need to check your recharge history and new balance online via the “My Account” section on www.vodacom.co.za.
Warning: If you attempt to use this SIM in devices not designed to support the Micro SIM, you may damage both the SIM and the device.
This is what the much talked about Micro SIM looks like:
Advanced Data Direct
PRESS RELEASE: VTIME Airtime first to sell Vodacom Broadband Advanced data packages online via EFT.
Published: 2010/06/09
Young up-and-coming IT company VTime Airtime is the first virtual airtime company to make Vodacom Broadband Advanced data bundles available online via internet banking and EFT. This service was promised to be up and running by 1 July 2010, but was launched 3 weeks ahead of schedule on 10 June 2010.
Vodacom’s recent price cuts on their Broadband Advanced data packages have been welcomed by many. Broadband Advance is now cheaper, it offers higher speed than Broadband Standard (up to 7.2 mbps) and the in- and out-of-bundle rates are the same price. This makes these data packages quite attractive and beneficial to the frequent internet user. Unfortunately, until now, Vodacom Broadband Advanced data bundles could not be bought directly via online mechanisms.
Prepaid and Top Up customers often complain about the schlep of converting vouchers and airtime to data bundles via a cellphone or vodacom4me. Subsequently innovative companies like VTime Airtime introduced Data Direct – Vodacom Broadband Standard data bundles recharged pinless and direct to your modem SIM. The Data Direct recharge mechanism basically involves making an EFT payment to VTime and receiving an SMS to inform you that your modem SIM has been recharged with the paid for data bundle.
Competitor companies that also sell data bundles directly via an online mechanism, operate with a credit card system and they currently sell only Vodacom Broadband Standard data bundles. Although there is a perception that all the banks sell data bundles, FNB is in fact the only bank that recharges Vodacom Broadband Standard data bundles pinless. VTime’s newly expanded Data Direct service makes them the first virtual airtime provider to sell Vodacom Broadband Advanced data bundles pinless and direct to Prepaid and Top Up customers.
VTime Airtime pledges airtime and data bundle recharges that are easy, effective and delivered within 15 minutes. Currently you can purchase airtime, Broadband Standard data bundles and Broadband Advanced data bundles pinless and direct to your cellphone or modem SIM. This makes VTime Airtime the only online service provider where ABSA, FNB, Standard Bank and Nedbank clients can buy Broadband Advanced data bundles online via EFT.
Visit Broadband Advanced Data Direct to read more about this development.
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