Bold 9900, BIS and TopUp

[endlesslyonline]

So i received my 9900 today I opted to no put the BIS on my contract, but to rather pay for it month to month (my contract is a TopUp 200 Anytime, which i have had for a few months, the Bold 9900 was bought cash, not on contract)

So, i go and load 60 bucks of airtime to load BIS, and goto *141*11# .... but .... i get a message saying this is only for PayAsYouGo AND Anytime Topups (which i have), so off to phone 808, and i was advised by the "friendly" staff, that you cant get BIS on anytime topup, no sense in arguing with them that the message said anytime topup, so i decided, **** 808, i would rather go to someone who knows, hence im posting this.

Any help?

 

[mizteeq]

As far as I'm aware, you can't purchase BIS monthly with a TopUp package. It needs to be bundled onto your contract, unfortunately.

It sucks, but this applies to Vodacom too, which I found out the hard way as well.

 

[endlesslyonline]

Thanks for the reply, i gave in and had it added to my contract, more convenient anyway.

 

[Soprono]

think BIS cannot be deducted from hybrid airtime (ie. airtime received from a contract / not physically loaded urself) and that was the problem, know you got it sorted now but just so u know now!

the biggest waste of my money is a top-up contract i have r600 airtime on my BB, i never use airtime and i always pick up the phone to call and im still left with that, so getting my 9900 tomorrow on a talk package, as the free minutes fit perfect for me, wont do a topup on a BB in a hurry haha