Afrihost Mobile doubles top-up data value

Afrihost is doing the right things to attract customers, while Mweb, Vodacom and MTN is doing the right things to lose their customers :D

Afrihost made a fanboi out of me :o
 
I topped up yesterday with 500mb for R52, any effect for me or is this a promotion still coming?
 
basically it is a wonderful tool to manage network demand. People are inclined to use lots of data at the beginning of the month (when they get their data allocated) or at the end of the month (when it is about to run out) and by selling discounted data in the middle of the month they can get people to use data more consistently throughout the month. Bloody good move good for the consumer and probably helps them in the long run get more capacity and bargaining power to keep prices down.
 
Paul Hjul said:
basically it is a wonderful tool to manage network demand. People are inclined to use lots of data at the beginning of the month (when they get their data allocated) or at the end of the month (when it is about to run out) and by selling discounted data in the middle of the month they can get people to use data more consistently throughout the month. Bloody good move good for the consumer and probably helps them in the long run get more capacity and bargaining power to keep prices down.
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AND... to keep customers loyal :)
 
Adding some more Awesomeness, Thanks Afrihost.
 
The MiFi is great with one rather critical gripe...

The MTN coverage is not good for me
Seems to be very bad in the Boschkop/ Tweedracht area - east Pretoria

My vodacom 3G works fine...
MTN AH MiFi not so .... 2G if you're lucky
 
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Try this to stop the MiFi from going to 2G...

sammya said:
The MiFi is great with one rather critical gripe...

The MTN coverage is not good for me
Seems to be very bad in the Boschkop/ Tweedracht area - east Pretoria

My vodacom 3G works fine...
MTN AH MiFi not so .... 2G if you're lucky
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I fixed my poor 3G reception by changing a setting in the MiFi to only connect to 3G. Just go to the web interface at http://192.168.1.1/ Go to Settings / Dial-up / Mobile Connection. Change this to Manual and save. Then go to Settings / Dial-up / Network Settings and change the "Preferred Mode" under Network to "3G only". Apply.

Log out and back in. Go back to Settings / Dial-up / Network Settings to confirm that it shows 3G only. Then go back to Settings / Dial-up / Mobile Connection and change this back to Auto and save. Log out and restart the MiFi.

Your MiFi will now hang onto a poor 3G signal much better. Not had any problems since making this change. Hope this helps.
 
DanielM344 said:
I fixed my poor 3G reception by changing a setting in the MiFi to only connect to 3G. Just go to the web interface at http://192.168.1.1/ Go to Settings / Dial-up / Mobile Connection. Change this to Manual and save. Then go to Settings / Dial-up / Network Settings and change the "Preferred Mode" under Network to "3G only". Apply.

Log out and back in. Go back to Settings / Dial-up / Network Settings to confirm that it shows 3G only. Then go back to Settings / Dial-up / Mobile Connection and change this back to Auto and save. Log out and restart the MiFi.

Your MiFi will now hang onto a poor 3G signal much better. Not had any problems since making this change. Hope this helps.
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That is a good way to make sure you get 3G signal. Of course is you main objective is to stay connected for basic connectivity, then the auto option also works great :)
 
sammya said:
The MiFi is great with one rather critical gripe...

The MTN coverage is not good for me
Seems to be very bad in the Boschkop/ Tweedracht area - east Pretoria

My vodacom 3G works fine...
MTN AH MiFi not so .... 2G if you're lucky
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Performance is based on coverage in that area, but also demand from other MTN data subscribers. The device will choose the best signal strength if you are using the auto setting. If you are "stuck" on 2G and not happy with that, you can force your device onto 3G.
 
Paul Hjul said:
basically it is a wonderful tool to manage network demand. People are inclined to use lots of data at the beginning of the month (when they get their data allocated) or at the end of the month (when it is about to run out) and by selling discounted data in the middle of the month they can get people to use data more consistently throughout the month. Bloody good move good for the consumer and probably helps them in the long run get more capacity and bargaining power to keep prices down.
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Wish we'd thought of all this business logic. We just did it because it would be awesome and people would love it.

We're just desperate to make our clients have the most amazing experience with us. I've said it before - we'd clean your pools if we could ;)
 
Hemps said:
I topped up yesterday with 500mb for R52, any effect for me or is this a promotion still coming?
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We'll be switching the promo on at certain times during the month. We'll make a big hoo-haa so that you know it's available.

We used to do it with DSL topups, before 2-for-1 just became permanent :)
 
AfriMan said:
Wish we'd thought of all this business logic. We just did it because it would be awesome and people would love it.

We're just desperate to make our clients have the most amazing experience with us. I've said it before - we'd clean your pools if we could ;)
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You would need a much larger staff component to clean my pool and they'd need to watch out for sharks of the non-OOB and lawyer variety ... :)

I am quite sure if you put some of your strapping lads in tech support to the task of pool cleaning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFD3bPYGBlY

nudge nudge wink wink
 
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