Hi! I use Smile because it's a little faster and significantly more reliable than the others. Most of my business and personal communication abroad happens via video Skype. Voda and Airtel are sometimes fast enough, but often aren't especially during peak times. I hate having to tell clients that my connection isn't good enough for a scheduled call.
For an idea of what I'm talking about, here's 70 second pings to google.com from an especially frustrating morning in January on Vodacom TZ: http://i.imgur.com/5urJcd7.png. This isn't typical but happens often enough to be a problem.
With Smile I'm paying rates comparable to 4G service in the US, e.g. TMobile[1]. The service isn't nearly as fast (peak I've seen is ~3.5 Megabytes/sec download) but the reliability makes it worth it. I suspect I'm paying as much for lower contention ratios on the towers as for "4G" infrastructure, but the end result is the same.
How fast is it? To my NZ ears these prices sound fantastic, as we usually pay about 5-6 times that for unlimited internet (if unlimited is even an option; it only is in certain urban areas). But presumably it's quite slow?
I have never hear of this "smile" company so i looked them up and their prices[1] seem ridiculous.
I use vodacom and i pay 20,000 shillings a month for unlimited internet.This company charges 17,500 a month for 1GB.
vodacom,like other companies also have more options[2].
Why do you use this company?
ps: 1USD is equivalent to about 1500 shillings so 20000 shillings is about 13USD
[1] http://smile.co.tz/products-services/
[2] https://www.vodacom.co.tz/internetservices/prepaid_packages/...