I have a Premicell Router, with 2 Vodacom contracts, and 1 MTN contract. All these contracts are currently Upgradeable in that they have already passed their 24 months and are rolling month to month.
I enquired at Autopage (well it's actually Pinacle Systems who use Autopage for the contracts) about upgrades on these contracts, as I assumed that you would be able to get handsets or vouchers on upgrading the contracts. They informed me that they used to give either a rebate on the invoice (once off about R700 to R900), or the amount in vouchers, or whatever phone you wanted to that value, and you had the option of adding the values together to get a better phone (lets say for arguments sake 3 x R700 = R2100). But apparently they no longer do this, and at this point you get absolutely NOTHING, and contracts remain on a month to month basis.
I also asked if one can then just take out a normal contract and put the sim in, and the lady again told me that because it's a Premicell, and it's least cost routing, the networks will detect it and block the sim card, so I can't do that either.
Basically I think it's unfair that if a person where to normally take out contracts like these, you'd get a R5000 to R7000 phone for free, but with the Premicell the value was first greatly diminished, and is no a big fat 0.
Can anyone verify this information? Are these people BS-ing me?
I enquired at Autopage (well it's actually Pinacle Systems who use Autopage for the contracts) about upgrades on these contracts, as I assumed that you would be able to get handsets or vouchers on upgrading the contracts. They informed me that they used to give either a rebate on the invoice (once off about R700 to R900), or the amount in vouchers, or whatever phone you wanted to that value, and you had the option of adding the values together to get a better phone (lets say for arguments sake 3 x R700 = R2100). But apparently they no longer do this, and at this point you get absolutely NOTHING, and contracts remain on a month to month basis.
I also asked if one can then just take out a normal contract and put the sim in, and the lady again told me that because it's a Premicell, and it's least cost routing, the networks will detect it and block the sim card, so I can't do that either.
Basically I think it's unfair that if a person where to normally take out contracts like these, you'd get a R5000 to R7000 phone for free, but with the Premicell the value was first greatly diminished, and is no a big fat 0.
Can anyone verify this information? Are these people BS-ing me?
tho we had a all our business contracts as well with auto page