Crazy MTN rates

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Dr Who

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Hi ALL

Am I missing something or has MTN become totally out priced in the SA market?

I have done a comparison between MTN, VC & Cell C ( I understand why cell c is so low ) but if you look at the difference between MTN & VC its scary. I looked at a R400 - R500 package excluding the phone and found the following:

Cost: MTN 16% higher ( fixed monthly subs )
Free minutes: MTN 9% higher when i compared cost of the free minute on both packages
OOB rate minutes: 27% higher

There just seems no reason to stay with MTN.....? How do they keep customers after there upgrade date?

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MTN are really falling behind and need to sort their **** out. I am still on MTN but shouldn't be for much longer. Then my wife and my son's contract will be following me out the MTN door.
 
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Sometimes they have very decent deals - Samsung S2 R299pmx24 = R7200 total (Anytime200 Topup). Phones retail was that R7000 when I got it. So I am paying off a phone at 0 interest AND get to make calls with the SIM in a cheap phone or make SMS donations with the almost useless airtime.

On anything else that those very good deals, MTN is pretty useless.
 
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I'm also fed up with MTN. Their service has gotten so bad and their deals can't compete with other providers.

My contract expires in April next year, don't plan on renewing it again.
 
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try phoning a branch. first, try to get a correct number.
 
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Its all about personal experience tbh, I had cellc/vodacom and it was horrible for me.

MTN I know is more expensive , but yet i have never had an issue, no dropped calls/super fast upgrades..as in 10minutes and i walk out/no crappy internet speeds etc. ..guess im one of the very lucky few..or unlucky that cellc/vodacome turned out bad :p
 
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at the time I last had to get a prepaid SIM card and network MTN had the best all round product for me.
My current monthly spend over the last 7 months has been R30 a month mostly on data bundles
 
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arg hit reply without last sentence and can't edit
My current monthly spend over the last 7 months has been R30 a month mostly on data bundles. It simply doesn't make sense to go to any schlep to migrate to another network
 
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Paul Hjul said:
arg hit reply without last sentence and can't edit
My current monthly spend over the last 7 months has been R30 a month mostly on data bundles. It simply doesn't make sense to go to any schlep to migrate to another network
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R30 on Cell C gets you 200MB bundle data. If you load R50 airtime you get 50MB data free. What does MTN give you for that money?
 
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nothing more than I need
I have decent reception - which I wouldn't on CellC and I can get enough data for my phone for email (which is what it is used for). My actual point is that at less the R200 on a 6 month period the inconvenience of migrating is outweighed and keeping my number and existing setup works quite well for me. The phone is an incoming phone essentially.
 
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Paul Hjul said:
nothing more than I need
I have decent reception - which I wouldn't on CellC and I can get enough data for my phone for email (which is what it is used for). My actual point is that at less the R200 on a 6 month period the inconvenience of migrating is outweighed and keeping my number and existing setup works quite well for me. The phone is an incoming phone essentially.
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Well whatever works for you. You can keep your number if you migrate btw.
 
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Bryn26 said:
Well whatever works for you. You can keep your number if you migrate btw.
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if the porting is successful - which carries a risk of issues
and the question - which is actually my point:
is to which network should a person port on an essentially incoming line. Until TM gets broader coverage its between VC and MTN - CellC has so many areas of **** coverage they are not an option for a primary incoming line. I have an 8ta SIM card (actually I have two one is in an iPhone my mother uses) which was in a secondary phone that my brother now has after being pickpocketed.
If I get a new phone and have to do a new SIM routine by all means I will make a call at the time on the best setup. If I look to signup on a contract I will need to make an assesment - but then with Afrihost's move MTN has some promise. Chances are I'd actually go with Telkom Mobile all out though.

But the simple answer to the OPs question is that customers frequently are retained on a network simply because retention is a default position. I'd like to root for CellC but they are simply not worth the effort
 
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